让语言自身言说——从语言的角度看阿多诺的现代主义美学及其政治意义

Let Language Speak Itself: Adorno’s Modernist Aesthetics and Its political Significance Seen from the Perspective of Language

现代主义的哲学假设与美学实践颠覆了传统再现说,突出了语言与形式的核心地位。阿多诺以其独特的“语言言说”理论使马克思主义文论成功地面对了这一新的挑战。他的理论指出现代主义最精美的作品以其不谐和的形式反映了社会宰制对人类与自然本身造成的苦难,也暗示了对结束宰制的要求以及替代性的社会关系。因此,阿多诺的理论与批评实践极大地丰富和发展了马克思主义文学批评的传统。

Modernist philosophical assumption and aesthetic practice have undermined the traditional theory of representation and highlighted the core position of language and form. Adorno, with his unique theory of “language that speaks,” makes Marxist literary theory successfully face this new challenge. He points out that the finest modernist works, with their inharmonious form, reflect the suffering that the social rules inflict upon human beings and nature itself. Meanwhile, they also indicate a strong demand for the end of these rules and for an alternative social relation as well. It is in this way that Adorno’s theory and critical practice greatly enrich and develop the Marxist tradition of literary criticism.