The fact that Bernard Williams' writing is at times compressed, intense, almost epigrammatic, is acknowledged by many different reviewers of his work. Are these just incidental features? Or do they have any philosophical significance? The aim of this article is to study those features of Williams' style as part of a stylistic method that I (and Williams) refer to as compression. In the course of my paper, I will reflect on the idea of compression as a stylistic method for doing more with less in philosophical (and musical) writing; then I will take an excursus on some properties of Nietzsche's aphoristic writing (properties that can be found in Williams' writing as well); finally, I will locate some stylistic affinities between Williams and Nietzsche: from the image they both use to describe their philosophical style to the use of different devices (rhetorical questions, the use of em-dashes, humor…) they both employ—devices that embody a free spirit they revealed in their own writing and towards their own environment.

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压缩：尼采、威廉姆斯和风格问题

许多不同的评论家都承认伯纳德·威廉姆斯的写作有时是压缩的、激烈的，几乎是讽刺的。这些只是附带的功能吗？或者它们有什么哲学意义？本文的目的是研究威廉姆斯风格的这些特征，并将其作为我（和威廉姆斯）称为压缩的风格方法的一部分。在我的论文过程中，我将反思压缩作为一种风格方法的想法，以便在哲学（和音乐）写作中事半功倍；然后我将对尼采格言写作的一些属性（也可以在威廉姆斯的写作中找到的属性）进行附记；最后，我将找出威廉姆斯和尼采之间的一些风格上的相似之处：