后理论语境下的世界主义及其若干命题:评弗拉迪米尔·比蒂《探寻全球民主:文学、理论和创伤政治》

Cosmopolitanism and Its Relevant Issues in Post-Theoretical Context:A Review of Tracing Global Democracy:Literature,Theory,and the Politics of Trauma

随着全球问题的日益凸显,世界主义再度成为当前国际人文社会科学领域的一个前沿话题。在《探寻全球民主:文学、理论和创伤政治》一书中,弗拉迪米尔·比蒂认为世界主义概念发轫于个人或民族的创伤经验,并在此基础上深入探讨了其对欧洲和非欧洲文化、政治、民主的影响。通过对世界主义内涵的梳理辨析,比蒂提出了"流散世界主义"的构想:拥有流离的归属性,跳出既定的政治空间,维持异见性的政治形式,并在此基础上重审民族主义、爱国主义和民主。

With the increasing rise of global problems, cosmopolitanism has become one of the hot topics in contemporary academics. In Tracing Global Democracy： Literature, Theory, and the Politics of Trauma, Vladimir Biti claims that, to a large degree, the concept cosmopolitanism is derived from the personal or national traumatic experience, and explores the conception of cosmopolitanism and its impact on the European and non-European culture, politics and democracy. As an alternative, he calls for a ＂dispossessed cosmopolitanism＂, which refers to the dispossessed belonging outside the established political space, aiming to maintain the form of dissensual politics and to reexamine nationalism, patriotism and democracy accordingly.