邊緣再思：文化、傷痛、再現─惡與真實：後現代的轉折(1/3)
Date Issued
2003-07-31
Date
2003-07-31
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912411H002048BG
Abstract
Is evil an ineradicable part of being, or something contingently determined by
external forces? This is an old question which one can safely assume to have been
unsolved by endless philosophical and theological debates. In particular, the
Holocaust brought home the urgent need to ponder such issues to come to grips with
problems of freedom and responsibility— if an ethical act must be a free act, then
how can we hold those who kill while following orders? This project will examine
recent debates (centered on Kant’s concept of “radical evil”) as a source of insight in
the search for a theory of political action which will enable marginalized subjects to
better deal with violence, repression, and other traumatic experiences in the ongoing
reconstruction of subaltern history and repressed memory. Using Hannah Arendt’s
works as a convenient focal point, a review of relevant positions will be undertaken, and Lacan’s rethinking of the Cartesian cogito in Seminar XI as well as the account
of the “ethics of psychoanalysis” from the position of the real in Seminar VII will
provide further theoretical grounding to develop an understanding of relevant issues,
especially the connection of evil with enlightenment, the cogito, and the distinction
(or the possible collapse thereof) between the body and the symbolic. Ultimately our
findings should point what Walter Benjamin calls a “politicization of aesthetics.”
Beyond a review of scholarship and an attempt at theoretical generalization, the
project will also develop what I proposed in a recent paper as the “collapse of
differentials” in the newest phase of postmodernity. It will be my major concern that
the thinking of evil and the real should be done in full cognizance of such
postmodern vicissitudes (globalization, the emergence of risk society, etc.) so as to
engage fruitfully with contemporary aesthetic analysis. It will be shown that such
rethinking is indispensable in the representation of the marginal.
Subjects
evil
postmodernity
globalization
marginality
the real
subjectivity
SDGs
Publisher
臺北市：國立臺灣大學外國語文學系暨研究所
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