直面纳粹屠犹的理论维度——海登·怀特的“边界”与汉娜·阿伦特的“越界”

The Theoretical Dimension of the Holocaust: Hayden White's Boundary and Hannah Arendt's Overstepping

在如何再现纳粹屠犹事件上,海登·怀特的相对主义思想不是一种绝对的相对主义,而是以历史事件的客观性与人类的道德判断、主流意识形态为边界。一方面,设定一个边界有助于我们认识真相;但另一方面,边界是把双刃剑,它在揭示一部分真相的同时也会遮蔽另一部分真相。正因如此,才会有汉娜·阿伦特的"越界",超越自己的民族身份、公众的道德评判标准、意识形态,重新去追问纳粹屠犹的真相。从"边界"到"越界"的转变本身就需要也在证明着一种人类的独立思考能力。

On the question of how to represent the Holocaust,Hayden White's relativism idea was not an absolute one,but with objectivity of historical events,human ethics and the main ideology as the boundary. On the one hand,to set a boundary helps us to know the truth,but on the other hand,the boundary was a double-edged sword,which revealed and hid the truth at the same time. Because of this,Hannah Arendt overstepped the boundary of the ethnic identity,the public moral standard and ideology,to question the truth of the holocaust. The transformation from the boundary to overstepping the boundary could prove the human ability of thinking independently.