非严肃的阅读自然也有愉悦感,可这是一种类似于口腹之欲的暂时性愉悦,来去皆匆匆。而需要严肃思考的阅读,尽管艰辛、漫长,却可能带来一种长久的智性上的欢愉。在今天这样一个时代,提倡“严肃阅读”很容易被扣上“精英主义”的帽子,在一个所谓多元化和平等的时代,阅读变成完全个人化的私事,包括其阅读的文本、阅读的方式乃至阅读的目标,都是由个人的偏好与习惯所决定的,任何他人都没有足够的正当理由来进行臧否或指责。因此,当我在与旅美学者徐贲教授的对谈中,对青年一代大学生的阅读状况表达了 Non-serious reading naturally have pleasure, but this is a temporary pleasure similar to the appetite, come and go in a hurry. And reading, which requires serious thinking, may bring long-term intellectual pleasure, despite its arduousness and longitude. In such an era as today, advocating “serious reading” can be easily labeled as “elitist”. In a so-called pluralistic and equal era, reading becomes a completely personal and private matter, including its reading Texts, ways of reading, and even reading are all determined by individual preferences and habits, and no one else has enough justification to prosecute or criticize. Therefore, when I spoke with Professor Xu Ben in the United States of America, I expressed the reading status of the young generation of college students