ABSTRACT With the humanities under attack, this essay suggests the virtue of obstinacy and fortitude in the face of the continual erasure of spaces for study. Drawing from Henry David Thoreau as an exemplar of obstinate thought, I suggest a hermeneutically inflected communicative ethic that responds to the need for the humanities to defend themselves by turning to the material objects of study: books. Obstinacy is defined here not as stubbornness or inflexibility, but as persistence in the face of adverse circumstances through the practices of reading and writing.

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固执的思想或人文科学如何捍卫自己

摘要随着人文学科的发展，本文提出了面对不断消失的学习空间时固执和坚韧的美德。我从亨利·戴维·梭罗（Henry David Thoreau）的顽固思想中汲取经验，提出了一种诠释学上受到影响的传播伦理学，这种伦理学满足了人文科学通过捍卫研究的实质性对象（书）来捍卫自己的需要。顽固性在这里不是指固执或僵硬，而是指通过阅读和写作实践在不利环境中的毅力。