中文简介：

怎样才能成为一个好的倾听者？关于如何做好这件事，有很多常识性的想法——耐心、宽容、可用性、响应性、不带道德判断——但真的有这么简单吗？这是一个人可以轻易学会的技能，还是更像是一种怪癖或天赋？为什么有些人似乎比其他人更擅长于此呢？

本书由精神分析学家Anouchka Grose和小提琴制造者Robert Brewer Young撰写，这是两个非常不同类型的专业倾听者之间的对话：前者与语言有关，后者与乐器有关。从完全陌生开始，Anouchka Grose和Robert Brewer Young开始了一场引人入胜的、有趣的、曲折的关于交流的沉思，将精神分析理论、哲学、当代政治和文化中的广泛参考资料交织在一起。当他们讨论各自实践之间的异同和共鸣时，他们遇到了对话本身的一些有启发性的困难。两位思想家和实践者在其中互相包容、打断和困惑，试图阐明倾听的意义。

英文简介：

What makes a good listener? There are a number of commonsensical ideas about what constitutes doing it well — patience, tolerance, availability, responsiveness, lack of moral judgement — but is it really so simple? Is it a skill one can easily learn or more of a quirk or talent? And why do some people seem to be so much better at it than others?

Written by a psychoanalyst and a violin maker, Uneasy Listening is a dialogue between two very different kinds of professional listener: the former working with speech, the latter with musical instruments. Beginning as total strangers, Anouchka Grose and Robert Brewer Young embark on an engaging, entertaining, and winding meditation on communication that weaves together wide-ranging references from across psychoanalytic theory, philosophy, contemporary politics and culture. As they discuss the differences, similarities, and resonances between their practices, they run up against some of the illuminating difficulties of dialogue itself. The result is a kind of awkward duet in which two thinkers and practitioners accommodate, interrupt, and perplex each other in an attempt to say something about what listening means.