华东师范大学学报(哲学社会科学版) ›› 2020, Vol. 52 ›› Issue (5): 106-119.doi: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5579.2020.05.011

• 文学研究 • 上一篇    下一篇

他异和间距:经由列维纳斯和朱利安思考文化间性

王嘉军   

  1. 华东师范大学中文系(上海, 200241)
  • 出版日期:2020-09-15 发布日期:2020-09-19
  • 作者简介:王嘉军,华东师范大学中文系教授(上海,200241)。
  • 基金资助:
    国家社科基金重大项目"后现代主义哲学发展路径与新进展研究"(项目编号:18ZDA017)。

Alterity and Divergence: Thinking about Interculturality via Levinas and Jullien

WANG Jia-jun   

  • Online:2020-09-15 Published:2020-09-19

摘要: 列维纳斯思想中可以区分出三种差异,结合朱利安的阐述,也可以通过这三种差异来区别三种思考"文化间性"的方式:不同性将不同文化视为统一性的不同部分;陌异性将他者文化视为一种异域和异质性;他异性则将他者文化视为永不可被自我所把捉的伦理对象。与此同时,我们也应充分意识到二者的思想差异。列维纳斯的他异思想强调的是他者对于自我的优先性,朱利安的间距思想则强调透过他者对自我的反思。在跨文化交流中,一方面,"间距"思想所追求的"可理解的共通"可以平衡"他异"思想中自我和他者的不对称性;另一方面,他异思想中他者导向的伦理学也是间距思想的必要补充,在对他者的责任中,必然会产生间距。他异和间距之思最终都需要落实于生活,也只有通过回归生活的素朴性和复杂性,才能够激活列维纳斯和朱利安的思想,并克服他们思想中的局限。相应的,也应该将基于他异和间距的跨文化交流,从理解拓展到生活。这种跨文化生活不只会拓展主体的自由和可能性,同时也是抵御资本主义全球化的方法。

关键词: 列维纳斯, 朱利安, 文化间性, 跨文化交流, 生活

Abstract: Three kinds of difference can be distinguished in Levinas. Combined with Jullien's elaborations, these three kinds of difference can also be used to distinguish three ways of thinking about interculturality:distinction treats different cultures as different parts of unity, strangeness treats other cultures as exoticism and heterogeneity, and alterity views another culture as an ethical object that can never be captured by the subject. But at the same time, we should also be fully aware of the differences between these two thinkers. While alterity in Levinas emphasizes the priority of the other over the self, divergence in Jullien emphasizes the reflection on the self through the other. On the one hand, in cross-cultural communication, the "intelligible common" pursued by divergence can balance the asymmetry between the self and the other in Levinas; on the other hand, the other-oriented ethics in alterity is also a necessary complement to the idea of divergence, and divergence is bound to occur in the responsibility to the other. Divergence and alterity need to be implemented in life. Only by returning to the simplicity and complexity of life can Levinas and Jullien be activated and their limitations be overcome. Correspondingly, cross-cultural communication based on alterity and divergence should also be expanded from understanding to life. This cross-cultural life will not only expand the subject's freedom and possibility, but also function as a strategy to resist global capitalism.

Key words: Levinas, Jullien, interculturality, cross-cultural communication, life