终结“诉讼”的土地测量——论阿甘本对卡夫卡的解读

The Land Survey that Ends the “Trial”:Agamben’s Interpretation of Kafka

卡夫卡引起了当代西方诸多思想家和研究者的关注。人们从不同的角度解读卡夫卡,并衍生出各自的思想主题。布朗肖认为《城堡》指向所有中心的缺席,由此发现祛中心化的可能。①德勒兹和迦塔里强调,卡夫卡坚持朝向少数文学的写作,以此拒斥游牧写作的解域—再结域的游戏.

Agamben’s interpretation of Kafka is evidently characterized by his ideas about profanation.This paper argues that in discussing Kafka’s The Trial and The Castle,Agamben was trying to reveal the operational mechanism of divine governance,reflect on the secularization process of the modern West,and put an end to the machine of capitalist governance.Agamben traced the origins of divine governance back to the Christian theology of glory,pointing out that the secularization process in the modern West had permitted divine governance to open up secular political space and criticizing the way that capitalist religion incorporated all human life.According to Agamben,Kafka observed that the constructed divine sphere was appropriating the secular sphere,and asked human beings to re-measure the borders of their own existence and recover their hold on secular life.Agamben further suggested that human beings should constantly shift the thresholds of their own thinking,remove“the various barriers and obstacles”to social life,and safeguard the infinite possibilities of their own existence.In this way,Agamben expressed a strong desire to transform Western cultural traditions and to open up new dimensions for the future development of Western culture.