阿甘本《K》注读

An Annotated Reading of Agamben’s “K”

一意大利著名政治哲学家、思想家吉奥乔·阿甘本(Giorgio Agamben,1942-)是当代著名思想家之一,其思想以语言哲学思考为起点,进一步延伸至法哲学、美学、政治学、宗教、伦理、文学等领域。

Italian political philosopher and thinker Giorgio Agamben’s essay"K"is his reading of Kafka.In the essay,Agamben analyzes the protagonist K in Kafka’s two novels,Der Process and Das Schloss by drawing on resources from linguistics,philosophy and law.Etymologically speaking,the protagonist"K"is the first letter of the Latin"kalumnia",which means K is the kalumniator or the slanderer.For Kafka,self-slander is a strategy and weapon to fight against the legal system and the authorities.Meanwhile,the name"K"in Das Schloss derives from the implement used to survey land."K"’s job is to set boundaries-borders in the human world and boundaries between the human world and the heavenly world-and to struggle against border-crossing behavior.On the basis of translation,this close reading tries to demonstrate how Agamben applies varied approaches in his new reading and interpretation and how linguistic analysis for him is both a research method and direct evidence.