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2005-09-16
叙事主体性
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乔纳森是我的同学,之前我在名为《职业学者道路》的网志中写过他的八千里路云和月。他与其同事为中国读者编辑过《世界建筑》今年初的南非新建筑专辑,惜其综述文章当时因总总故障漏下,之后在《世界建筑》另行发表。
作为其文译者,我欣赏他以里克尔(Paul Ricoeur)的叙事主体性贡献于后殖民认同的讨论:“如果‘我们是谁’的意识产生于叙事交互中的想象力充裕的空间,一个形成于我们与他人之间的叙事空间,那么主体意识与集体意识都对诗意的再想象开放。”
事隔逾一年,突然意识到,我自己的功课琢磨的是历史文献中的作者笔下的主体何以沟通空间,也是对主体性的讨论。这是不是文化经历位移后自我省察的必然?
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“在国家与全球的尺度中分析了文化认同的重要性之后,笔者希望提示另一理解文化认同政治重要性的途径。近年来,有一些有趣的哲学讨论,关于人的主体性的本质及其广泛意义的与现代性的关联。库兹·凡(Couze Venn)在他的著作《西方主义:现代性与主体性》4中,提供了一个关于当代主体理论的讨论,他认为有助于那些挣扎于后殖民认同的人们。凡在关于这个主题的哲学间建立了一种有助益的对话,批判地、流动地重新配置了公共和私有、集体与自我、政治领域与主体认同。尤其是解释学哲学家保罗·里克尔(Paul Ricoeur,1913-),近期阐明了“叙事主体性”(narrative subjectivity)5的有用概念,这里引用凡:“里克尔告诉我们,叙事,‘建构了一个角色的双重属性’。根据说故事的准则,叙事倚赖文化中已有的情节模态,把生命的事件勾结于其中。我们理解我们生命中的行为和事件,是通过在想象的领域中指认它们,杜撰为虚构记事(fiction)。叙事认同的感觉“与他者的感觉相融合,以致产生次生的(second-order)故事,其本身即是无数故事之间的交叉……字面而言,我们是‘纠缠于故事’的。”6
里克尔的叙事主体性撬开了围绕私有和公共领域的边界,并在此过程中,贡献于居于人类主体性中心的我们对政治的理解。如果“我们是谁”的意识产生于叙事交互中的想象力充裕的空间,一个形成于我们与他人之间的叙事空间,那么主体意识与集体意识都对诗意的再想象开放。事实上,凡认为,如果后现代的主体要在任何等级的人类尊严下求存,则主体再想象是必需的。对自己与他人的再认同,这一诗学工作正是当前南非亟需的。
里克尔的考虑是有启示作用的,因为建筑设计所做的工作正居于想象性主体性之中。由于认同认同组成涉及叙事和美学考虑,建筑师的贡献也不必是完全理性化了的。我们不需要公式或是药方:历史决定论强加的“正确的风格”意在保证“政治正确”的结果;我们也不需要设计中现代主义(modernist)思想完全理性化的协议。确实,当代南非正在发现其独特的感觉:他们是谁,此时此地居于此意味着什么,并相信其最深的直觉。匆匆一扫结集于此期的设计项目,令人备受鼓舞,因为,这一瞥显示了设计中新的公众认同的想象性步伐已然迈出。”
4 Venn, Couze. Occidentalism: Modernity and Subjectivity. London: Sage, 20005.
5 Ricoeur, Paul. Time and Narrative. Translated by Kathleen Blamey and David Pellauer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988.
6 Venn. Occidentalism: Modernity and Subjectivity. pp 99.乔纳森·A·诺堡.建筑与文化认同.世界建筑 20050?
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"The motivation for the need for an account of the awareness of others changed over the course of Husserl's career, and with it subtly changed the account. In 1910/11 the concern was with problems raised by the apparent solipsism of the phenomenological reduction. Specifically he was concerned with how to adequately represent another subject to transcendental consciousness as well as how to insure that the constitutional achievements of all subjects converge on the objective world. These two problems make up the project of the "acquisition of the phenomenological monadic-plurality."8 The description of the awareness of others requires two distinctions, both appearing for the first time shortly before the 1910/11 lectures. The first is the distinction between the body as a living organism-a Leib-and the body as a physical thing-a Körper, (though in the lectures he refers to it simply as a Ding, a thing). We first perceive ourselves embodied as a living organism, while we first perceive others as a physical bodies. The second distinction is between presentation and appresentation. Concomitant with the direct "absolute givenness" of the object there is given a horizon-or, as he calls it in the 1910/11 lectures, a "halo"- of non-absolute givenness which can itself be brought under the scope of phenomenological investigation through a "double phenomenological reduction." The second reduction, contained within the first reduction, makes present intentional content which is implicated and contained in the first reduction, but not manifested there as present. Through this expansion Husserl is able to claim that the other as subject-or more specifically the other's body not merely as a thing but as a living organism-is empathicly given to the transcendental ego in the presentation of the other's body, and is given within the phenomenological reduction.
At this point the ego can understand itself as a possible object for another ego-as a person among other persons all intersubjectively constituting (as well as belonging to) the objective world. In this respect it makes sense for Husserl to say that the world arises through other egos.
Empathy is the mirroring of each consciousness in each other, and the possibility of such "mirroring" depends on the possibility of a corresponding constitution of a spatio-temporal nature, of an index extended into all egos.9"
The previous notes which are retained are the self-same notes that we previously heard. I don't mean that they are copies of them, reproductions of them or representations of them. I mean that it is exactly the same note which was once sounding which is now experienced as present although past, indeed present as past.
The current note sinks into the past and is modified in this temporal fashion. It is now experienced as that past note which when it was current followed the previous note which is now the further-past, that which was already past when the previous note was actual. The retained past is not just homogenous, it has a layered structure with each phase being experienced as the past of another past. In a four note tune, when the fourth note is current, the second note is experienced not just as past, like the third note, but as the third note's immediate past.
Each note in a melody and each word in a sentence are, of course, themselves enduring, temporal objects in their own right, with a beginning, a middle and an end, and these phases need to be described in a similar manner. The whole note runs off as a unity, but it is the unity of a continuum, for even in the past the note never becomes a static object. Every retained now is a retention of previous nows, and each new moment is a modification of all of the previous retentions. Each note is a running-off continuum. A melody, as a continuum of notes, is then a continuum of continua. Time itself is, as Husserl puts it, "a continuum of continua." As we experience time in consciousness, it is a continual sinking-away, not a series of discrete points, although it is difficult for us to avoid this false impression when we try to put the phenomenon into words. There is a privileged point, the now, but consciousness is not restricted to this point; it embraces the whole articulated temporal structure. Indeed, if consciousness were not temporal in this way experience would not be possible, as Plato already realized in the Philebus.
Time is part of the essence of consciousness. And time is essentially the temporal structure we have described above. It runs off continuous with the previous nows getting further and further "away" until they fade off into the distance. Distant past retentions draw together as in a spatial perspective. This fading away is not a changing of the phase and its nature: a middle C is still a real, sounding middle C, not an imagined, conceptualized or recollected one, but is modified in its mode of givenness so that it is given as the past of the current now.
Husserl claims that any retained moment had to originally have been a now at some stage. In a complementary fashion, a now is always the limit of a retentional series, a boundary edge. We couldn't have a now without retention and protention, nor vice versa. "
above is an exegesis of:
Lectures on The Phenomenology of Inner Time-Consciousness (1928),