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On Being Unreasonable: Breaking the Rules and Making Things Better

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內容簡介 我們活在充滿對立的世界，從墮胎權的賦予與否，到槍枝管制和氣候變遷，這些看似要理性決定的事情，為什麼始終無法達成共識？ 現代社會強調理性的重要，面對重要議題卻不是這麼一回事，意識形態和政治、宗教、個人立場不同，事情的對錯變得難以決定，例如像：當大家在家工作時是否能讓孩子在附近的公園玩耍？女性能不能在車上化妝？親餵母乳必須的嗎？不公義和受壓迫者的權利該受到保護嗎？ 綜觀歷史來看，作者Kirsty Sedgman認為人們無形中被許多舊觀念與思維限制，在性別、階級、種族、身障人士等各項議題裡造成各種不公義與歧視，難道理性思考反而造成了負面的效果？作者認為，許多事情需要的是「非理性」的勇氣，才能撥亂反正，真正改善我們的生活與權利。 We’re living in an age of division. From abortion rights to immigration, gun control to climate change, civil debate has gone out the window. Manners, order, and respect are being eroded. Why can’t we all be reasonable? The trouble is, what’s ’reasonable’ to one person is outrageous to another. Is it okay to let children play in the garden while others are working from home? To do your makeup on a train, or recline your seat on an aeroplane? What’s the right way to breastfeed? To protect your neighbourhood? To protest against injustice and oppression? In a world where we all think we’re being reasonable, how can we figure out what’s right? Looking back through history and around the world, Kirsty Sedgman set out to discover how unfairness and discrimination got baked into our social norms, dividing us along lines of gender, class, disability, sexuality, race... Instead of measuring human behaviour against outdated standards of rules and reason, On Being Unreasonable argues that sometimes we need to act unreasonably to bring about positive change.

作者介紹

作者介紹 Kirsty SedgmanKirsty Sedgman is a cultural studies expert who specialises in audience experience and human behaviour. She has spent her career studying how we construct and maintain our competing value systems, working out how people can live side by side in the same world yet come to understand it in such totally different ways. Currently based at the University of Bristol, she has spoken about her research around the world, and has seen her work featured in outlets like BBC Front Row, the Times Literary Supplement, the Guardian, and the New York Times.

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