Дэвид Митчелл предпринимает энергичное, но безупречно вежливое исследование запутанного мира манер поведения. Действительно ли они находятся в упадке, как утверждают многие? Или мы просто сбрасываем оковы викторианской одержимости этикетом? На протяжении серии Дэвид обедает с детьми в начальной школе, а затем идет на рынок, чтобы увидеть хорошие и плохие манеры в действии. Он исследует, откуда берутся наши манеры, вместе с профессорами Стивеном Пинкером из Гарвардского университета и писателем Генри Хитчингсом. Что мы подразумеваем под «учтивостью» и «хорошими манерами» в общественных местах? Почему люди все еще щипают священников за задницы, и что может сделать государство для повышения стандартов публичного поведения? И, спрашивает Дэвид, как цифровая эпоха меняет наше понимание общественного пространства? Создано Крисом Ледгардом.
Behaving Ourselves is a series of entertaining but informed investigations into social manners, written by radio and TV presenter David Mitchell, assisted by authors Steven Pinker and Henry Hitchings.\nIt begins by taking the narrator lunch sandwiches to a primary-school playground, where they are then joined by 'the childrened', as Mitchell calls them, witnessing their behaviour: the noisy unruliness of a formative age plays out against the academics' tepid reverence for traditional polite lessons.\nAfter lunch, Mitchell proceeds to witness the behaviour of market traders, in which there is an increasing lack of conventional niceties.\nMitchell points out evidence that public behaviour is becoming more aggressive and impolite with time, and he argues that whilst in ancient times, audiences could only make up their minds about others by observing their bearing in crowds, the internet has enabled us to judge interlopers instantly,2 which has presumably exacerbated cultural alienation.\nFollowing this distressing introduction, it soon becomes apparent that Mitchel has been dissuaded from losing faith in manners by his conversation with lecturer Steven Pinker, whom he finds hilarious and suspiciously well-read given how genteel he appears,3 and by the perspectives painted by Henry Hitchcins, who has suggested solutions to improving public interaction and enemy-blendery.\nThe book concludes with a mixture of dissatisfaction with culture and an air of hopefulness.\nDespite Lord Tornado (discussed in more detail elsewhere) not helping much, experts do give some useful advice, including those views that there are no reliable statisticians to measure how declining manners actually are.
Аудиокнига «Behaving Ourselves» написана автором Дэвид Митчелл в году.
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Язык: Английский
ISBN: 9781787532960
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David Mitchell sets out on a vigorous but impeccably polite investigation into the confusing world of manners. Are they really in decline, as many would have us believe? Or are we just throwing off the shackles of the Victorian obsession with etiquette? Over the course of the series, David eats his lunchtime sandwiches with children in a primary school, and later goes to a street market to see manners – good and bad – in action. He explores where our manners come from with Professors Steven Pinker from Harvard University and the author Henry Hitchings. What do we mean by 'civility' and 'good manners' in public places? Why are people still pinching vicars' bottoms, and what can the state do to improve standards of public behaviour? And, David asks, how is the digital age changing our sense of public space?Produced by Chris Ledgard.
