Mythical enjambment in The Hungry Woman: nation,desire, and Cherríe Moraga’s utopic turn

In her play The Hungry Woman: A Mexican Medea (2001), Cherríe Moraga makes use of a technique I call “mythical enjambment”: the insertion of a myth, story, or cultural context into another where it “doesn’t belong,” a willful act of making the unexpected out of the expected. Moraga utilizes mythical enjambment to illuminate how mythologies become entrenched and perpetuate harmful ideologies. Interrupting the traditional aesthetics of Western theater by drawing attention to the ways queer women of color are erased from the narrative, Moraga also challenges the absence of queer women of color from the Chicano movement by embedding her play within some of the most dearly held myths of Chicana/o culture. Ultimately, the use of mythical enjambment gestures toward the utopic and revolutionary potential of theater. The Hungry Woman shatters myths on multiple, intersectional levels: from the critical gaze of interpretive authority to the myths that cohere Chicana/o identity along masculinist and heterosexist lines.     

从"他乡"到"她乡":吉尔曼女性主义写作策略的转变

夏洛特.帕金斯.吉尔曼是美国女性主义文学的鼻祖。对吉尔曼的小说进行整体考察,可以发现:她的创作经历了从解构“他乡”(男权社会)到建构“她乡”(女性乌托邦)的转变,或者说,从以揭露和解构为主的现实主义,走向了以规划和建构为目标的乌托邦主义写作。这使她成为树立女性乌托邦典范的枢纽人物,其对于现代女性乌托邦文学的影响可谓深远。同时,这一转变也充分显示了吉尔曼女性主义思想的前瞻性,她预见性地实践了后现代女性主义所倡导的女性主义文学之目标,即:击破、摧毁、预见与规划。     

Anticipation,Critique and the Problem of Intervention: Understanding the Messianic: Derrida through Ernst Bloch

This paper looks at the concept of themessianic as a means of understanding theMarxist tradition, particularly therelationship between the ethical and thepolitical. It examines the positions of JacquesDerrida and Ernst Bloch, whereby both utilisethe messianic as a means of upholding anethical space which is not reducible to being,while at the same time emphasising the need anddemand of the messianic to be brought intobeing. This contradiction operates as the basiccharacteristic of the messianic and it isasserted that Bloch, rather than Derrida,offers a stronger version of the messianic andthe relationship it constructs between ethicsand politics, by attaching a notion of thegood, that of human dignity which operates toguide the ethical command. While Bloch'sdignity may lead to the position of sacrificewhen engaging within the political, theco-ordination of the ethical by dignity doesnot itself sacrifice ethics as a totality.     

美的世界与善的世界——桃花源与理想国的比较分析

桃花源是以感性为工具构建的美的世界,理想国是以理性为工具构建的善的世界。前者遵循存在的秩序,追求的是内在的意志自由；后者遵循价值的秩序,追求的是外在的行动的自由。     

Of(f) Course: Michel Foucault,the Mobile Philosopher and his Dreamworlds

Foucault extolled the Iranian revolution and, anticipating the havoc that his public intervention in favour of the revolution would create, he wrote: “I can already hear the French laughing, but I know that they are wrong”. Examining Foucault’s (so unlikely) valorisation of certainty and the partisan affectivity it bestows upon knowledge and truth, I read his unusual engagement with the Iranian revolution against the grain. A major tendency is to approach Foucault’s Iranian writings as aberration; against this tendency, I read them as an effect of Foucault’s specific epistemic and utopian optics. Through a critical reading of neglected aspects of Foucault’s comments on Iran, I argue that much nuance is missing when damning critiques fail to see why and how Foucault’s interest in an active rather than folklore non-European political identity unveils deeper tensions of his own worldview and outlook on international politics and interrogates mainstream appraisals of Foucault’s political philosophy.     

Young Estonia and The Early Twentieth-Century Cultural Utopias

This article examines aesthetic and social ideals in the early texts (1904–1908) of one of the first integral Estonian cultural movements – Noor-Eesti (Young Estonia). The aspirations of Young Estonia can be mapped by means of two principles of culture-making: a utopian one that seeks to change society as a whole, and a monadic one that focuses on the individual. The ideal of the Young Estonia movement is characterized by harmony and entirety – a kind of unity of social classes and cultural spheres, as well as the text and its parts; hence the connections between the arts and society (i.e., the belief that through the development of the cultural sphere, the whole of society develops as well).     

《中国法学向何处去》的意义与两种反思

从“法学——法学家”的路径来分析,《中国法学向何处去》这篇长文做出了巨大知识贡献。知识内部与知识外部两种反思的分析框架可以使人们洞见到其中的可能缺陷:知识内部的反思不充分,知识外部的反思被忽视以及“中国法律理想图景”的提法不妥当。这三方面的问题导致了“长文”的目的不能充分达致。受现代化范式支配与缺失中国法律理想图景可以说是中国法学缺乏自觉意识与反思精神这一问题的两个面向。中国法学要超越这个时代需要深入到知识内部与知识外部的各种因素乃至中国文化的集体无意识之中。     

Pandora's Box: Reflections on a Myth

Abstract

The article seeks to consider the relationship between hope and utopianism by looking at the ancient Greek myth of Pandora's Box, with its enigmatic figure of hope. It begins by considering Hesiod's influential formulation of the myth, before examining a range of modern interpretations in which diverse conceptions of hope are to be found. Using the work of Spinoza, Hume and Day an alternative conception of hope is proposed that conjoins hope with fear. This is followed by an exploration of the utopian, using this time another figure associated with the myth, Prometheus. An attempt is then made to differentiate the frequently conflated concepts of hope and the utopian. Finally, in the spirit of recent post-secularism, the two concepts are brought to bear on the nature of religion.     

西方马克思主义文化批判理论的意义与幻像

西方马克思主义关注资本主义的社会变革和发展,它们从总体性原则出发,阐释出文化革命、文化领导权和文化批判的具体策略,开辟出一条不同于传统马克思主义的社会批判路径,并由此对20世纪人类社会图景产生了重要影响,但文化批判理论的逻辑终局也使其理论思想逻辑的局限性显现出来。     

历史理论的乌托邦

历史理论的乌托邦是赫勒提出的基于现存社会的历史理论,这种乌托邦建立在自由价值基础上,力求符合理性的激进需求,最终指向了伦理的诉求。作为一种历史想象,乌托邦的核心是不断追求个体自由的实现。历史理论的乌托邦立足于“现在”,相信进步的观念。赫勒希望激进哲学所代表的乌托邦能够带动实践和行动,而不只是停留在理论的层面上。