柔弱思想——理查德·罗蒂与反讽概念当代释义

Weak Thought: Richard Rorty and a Contemporary Interpretation on the Concept of Irony

反讽作为西方哲学与文论基本概念,始终关涉语言、意义与交谈等论题,并形成了贯穿古典与当代的释义脉络。当代视野下的哲理反讽与苏格拉底式反讽有着明显关联,尤其以理查德·罗蒂的反讽释义最为典型。立足于西方形而上学批判,罗蒂指出反讽表现为对哲学论证与语言的根本和持续性怀疑;反讽体现着当代哲学的自谦化和自我柔弱。作为柔弱思想,反讽是对强势的形而上学的疗治,反讽是人类不间断交谈当中的虔诚和宽容意识的彰显,同时也是词语与意义关联性的重建。

As one fundamental concept of philosophy and literary theory,irony has evolved into continual interpretations,which concern some basic theoretical topics like language,meaning and conversation.Resemblances could be proved between Socratic irony and philosophical irony in the contemporary horizon,especially for Richard Rorty’s paraphrasing.Basing on the critique of western metaphysics,Richard Rorty points out that irony manifests radical and continuing doubts on philosophical vocabularies and arguments.In some sense,irony is the humbling and weakening of philosophy itself.As Weak Thought,irony explores an intellectual approach for the therapy of strong metaphysics,and manifests the consciousness of tolerance and spiritual piety in human endless philosophical conversations.Irony also tries to reconstruct the relatedness between word and meaning.