回到原点:海德格尔的希腊之旅

Return to the Origin:Heidegger's Journey to Greece

无数的旅行者在旅行杂志中告诉我们,大家往往并不是被那些新奇的、奇异的和奇怪的景象所感动,而是被那些经久的、熟悉的和可预期的景象所打动。在这种情况下,通过旅行中的预期(一种通过他人对某地的阐释所形成的怀乡情节)来结构旅行经验,就成为旅行的必须和难以避免的过程。在游记《诗意的栖居》中,海德格尔回忆了他于1962年的春天第一次访问希腊的经历,当时,他和自己的妻子艾尔弗莱德(Elfride)一起,游览了希腊的岛屿和雅典。他对上述地点的观察是以复杂的哲学话语为中介的,他指出,他的旅行更像是一次回乡的过程。表面上看,海德格尔拜访了希腊,而同样的,希腊也在情感和智识上拜访了他。

Consideration of the travel journals of numerous tourists suggest that many were motivated, not by the novel, the exotic, or the strange, but by the time honored, the familiar, and the expected. Under the circumstances, framing the expe- rience of the visit through the anticipation of arrival-a kind of pre-emptive nostalgia where the site is prescriptively interpre- ted through the accounts of others-became a necessary, and inevitable, prerequisite to the visit itself. As case in point is Sojourns, the travel journal of Martin Heidegger, in which the philosopher recounts his first visit to Greece, in the spring of 1962 when, in the company of his wife Elfride, he toured the Greek islands and visited Athens. His observations, even when mediated through the complexities of a difficult philosophical discourse, suggest that this visit was more of a home- coming than an excursion, and that, as much as he was physically traveling to Greece, Greece was emotionally and intellec- tually coming to him.