诗性正义何以可能?—努斯鲍姆《诗性正义》引发的思考

Is Poetic Justice Possible :Refl ections on Martha C. Nussbaum's “Poetic Justice”

努斯鲍姆在文学想象与情感的基础上建立了诗性正义理论,试图让文学在司法审判中发挥作用。她对于文学的社会功能与法律程序如何成功对接的论述,可以引发关于世界观、情感与理性等方面问题的思考。从文学理论的角度来讨论,诗性正义理论存在着诗性正义与法律审判难以直接对接、文学情感与法律理性相矛盾等困境。由此,探究努斯鲍姆对文学作用的认识偏差,进而获得关于文学作用的限度、复杂机制及产生方式等方面的启示。

Nussbaum established the theory of poetic justice on the basis of literary imagination and emotion, trying to make literature play a role in the judicial trial. Her discussion on how literature successfully intervenes in legal procedures raises questions about the world outlook, emotion and reason, and so on. From the perspective of literary theory, the limitations of the theory of poetic justice can be found. These limitations include the difficult docking of poetic justice and legal justice, the contradiction between literary emotion and legal reason, etc. Then Nussbaum's misconceptions of the role of literature are explored, and therefore the revelation about the role of literature is obtained.