The finest pieces in Mr Gray s book are satire. One is a Swiftian essay in favour of torture. Even better is a devastatingparody of the Marxist approach to linguistics, involving a visit by LudwigWittgenstein to the Soviet Union, and his relationship with an Hungarianacademic, L. Revai, who idealises the grunts of slave labourers as a proletarian Ursprache.
此书中最好的作品当属讽刺文学。一篇支持酷刑的斯威夫特式随笔可算在其中;而另一篇极佳的戏仿之作更令人叫绝,此文模仿了语言学的马克思主义研究模式,其情节包括路德维希维特根斯坦对苏联的一次访问,以及他与匈牙利学者L列瓦伊的交往,这位匈牙利学者将奴工的咕哝声理想化,将之提升至无产阶级原始语的高度。
In Mr Gray s most substantial essay, An agenda for Green conservatism, he attemptsto rescue conservatism from the ideological excesses of the 1980s. This is athought-provoking enterprise, deserving a book on its own. But if it became a book, theauthor s views on such things as the failings of professional monopolies in education andhealth would benefit from more statistics and fewer assertionscalling, perhaps, forinvestment in a researcher.
而在其最有分量的文章绿色保守主义之议程中,格雷试图将保守主义从二十世纪八十年代的意识形态泛滥中拯救出来。这一尝试之举引人深思,话题本身甚至值得以专著加以探讨。但若果真成书,那么作者对诸如教育与健康领域职业垄断的失败等议题所持有的见解,便需从更多的统计数据中获益,而凭空断言在其中所起的作用则应减少这可能需要在研究者方面的投入。
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