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| 內容簡介: |
By the author of the modern classic The Black Swan, this
collection of aphorisms and meditations expresses his major ideas
in ways you least expect.
The Bed of Procrustes takes its title from Greek mythology: the
story of a man who made his visitors fit his bed to perfection by
either stretching them or cutting their limbs. It represents
Taleb’s view of modern civilization’s hubristic side
effects—modifying humans to satisfy technology, blaming reality for
not fitting economic models, inventing diseases to sell drugs,
defining intelligence as what can be tested in a classroom, and
convincing people that employment is not slavery.
Playful and irreverent, these aphorisms will surprise you by
exposing self-delusions you have been living with but never
recognized.
With a rare combination of pointed wit and potent wisdom, Taleb
plows through human illusions, contrasting the classical values of
courage, elegance, and erudition against the modern diseases of
nerdiness, philistinism, and phoniness.
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| 關於作者: |
Nassim Nicholas Taleb spends most of his time as a fl?neur,
meditating in cafés across the planet. A former trader, he is
currently Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at New York
University. He is the author of Fooled by Randomness and The Black
Swan, which has spent more than a year on the New York Times
bestseller list and has become an intellectual, social, and
cultural touchstone.
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| 目錄:
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Procrustes
PRELUDES
COUNTER NARRATIVES
MATTERS ONTOLOGICAL
THE SACRED AND THE PROFANE
CHANCE, SUCCESS, HAPPINESS, AND STOICISM
CHARMING AND LESS CHARMING SUCKER PROBLEMS
THESEUS, OR LIVING THE PALEO LIFE
THE REPUBLIC OF LETTERS
THE UNIVERSAL AND THE PARTICULAR
FOOLED BY RANDOMNESS
AESTHETICS
ETHICS
ROBUSTNESS AND FRAGILITY
THE LUDIC FALLACY AND DOMAIN DEPENDENCE
EPISTEMOLOGY AND SUBTRACTIVE KNOWLEDGE
THE SCANDAL OF PREDICTION
BEING A PHILOSOPHER AND MANAGING TO REMAIN ONE
ECONOMIC LIFE AND OTHER VERY VULGAR SUBJECTS
THE SAGE, THE WEAK, AND THE MAGNIFICENT
THE IMPLICIT AND THE EXPLICIT
ON THE VARIETIES OF LOVE AND NONLOVE
THE END
Post''face
Acknowledgments
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