以快感对抗教化——桑塔格论艺术目的

Against Moral Ethics and Civilization of literary Works with Sensuous Pleasure:On Sontag's Atrtistic Purpose

传统"内容说"把文本当作承载道德伦理和教化的"内容"来看待,人们阐释作品无非就是要揭示并传达一种教化思想,一种道德伦理观念。正是这种对永恒道德伦理观念的不懈追求才导致了对文本源源不断的阐释,也使批评家们乐此不疲地充当起道德家。桑塔格的"反对阐释"首先反对的就是这一认识论及其导致的一系列后果,她接过反理性先驱手中的接力棒,以"新感受力"来对抗艺术的道德教化,旗帜鲜明地提出"艺术的目的是提供快感",对感性欲望予以彻底解放。在当时的形势下,只有提倡艺术的目的是带来快感,才能以激进的态度来抗击阐释的流弊。

The traditional concept of content takes the text as bearing moral ethics and civilization, in consequence people interpret literary works only to unravel and convey a kind of civilization, a moral ethics. It is this pursuit of eternal moral ethics that have caused the continuous interpretation of the text, and at the same time it makes critics joyfully be moralist. In contrast, Sontag＇ s ＂against interpretation＂ is just against this epistemology which leads to a series of consequences, and she got the baton from the pioneers of anti - rationality, being strongly against moral ethics and civilization of art works with her concept of ＂the new sensibility＂, proposing the idea that the purpose of art is to provide pleasure clearly in order to liberate the perceptual desire. On that condition , only by the radical way of advocating the purpose of art is to bring sensuous pleasure, can we fight against the disadvantages of interpretations.