哲思与海 – The Sea: A Philosophical Encounter by David Farrell Krell

由于偏爱内陆的安全感和思维方式，哲学家日益放弃了对海洋的探寻，转而将它交给了海洋生物学家、探险家和诗人。但是，诗人偶尔会连同精神分析学家一起，将我们带回万物的本源——海洋。

人性、神性、悲剧性、无边的灾难之海与有限的生命，伴随这些主题，读者可以跟随作者在泰勒斯、柏拉图、亚里士多德、荷马、荷尔德林、梅尔维尔、伍尔夫、惠特曼、尼采、海德格尔、谢林、费伦齐、弗洛伊德的论述中探寻人类与海洋的复杂关系，揭示我们的冲动、焦虑、死亡和爱。

Humankind has a profound and complex relationship with the sea, a relationship that is extensively reflected in biology, psychology, religion, literature and poetry. The sea cradles and soothes us, we visit it often for solace and inspiration, it is familiar, being the place where life ultimately began. Yet the sea is also dark and mysterious and often spells catastrophe and death. The sea is a set of contradictions: kind, cruel, indifferent. She is a blind will that will ‘have her way’. In exploring this most capricious of phenomena, David Farrell Krell engages the work of an array of thinkers and writers including, but not limited to, Homer, Thales, Anaximander, Heraclitus, Plato, Aristotle, Hölderlin, Melville, Woolf, Whitman, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Schelling, Ferenczi, Rank and Freud.

The Sea explores the significance in Western civilization of the catastrophic and generative power of the sea and what humankind’s complex relationship with it reveals about the human condition, human consciousness, temporality, striving, anxiety, happiness and mortality.

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