书名:如何阅读一本书
Title: How to Read a Book-The Classic Guide To Intelligent Reading
Author: Mortimer J.Adler & Charles Van Doren
Contents of the book
从目录看这本书分为四个部分:
- The dimensions of reading
- The third level of reading: analytical reading
- Approaches to different kinds of reading matter
- The ultimate goals of reading
从目录的名字来分析整本书:
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怎么理解dimensions呢?
其中,对于dimension的第三个释义最为合适。这个标题的命名暗示了对于reading有多种看待方式,而整本书的第一部分就是对不同的“看待方式”进行解释。所以,可以总结说,第一部分是关于In what ways should we think about reading? -
Analytical reading
整个第二部分的命名就是 the third level of reading。这里不仅暗示了reading有多个不同的level,而且其中的第三个level是最重要的,或者说是整本书的重点。 -
approaches
这里名字说明对于不同种类的书籍,有不同的 approach 来阅读。那么如果这本书是关于approaches of reading,那就不只有一种approach,又或者说是approach应该是可以随机应变的。 -
第四个标题值得玩味的地方在于“Goals”。阅读不仅有终极目标,而且还不止一个。
Preface
作者在前言介绍了再版这本书的动机:
- Speed-reading is not always appropriate
- The need to raise our reading skills beyond elementary level
但是最重要的原因还是因为:
- New in sights into the problems of learning how to read;
- A much more comprehensive and better-ordered analysis of the complex art of reading;
- The flexible application of the basic rules to different types of reading, in fact to every variety of reading matter;
- The discovery and formulation of new rules of read ing;