“承认的政治”与风格的政治学——路翎《财主的儿女们》的“精神现象学”再解读

Rereading Lu Ling's Children of the Rich from the Phenomenology of Mind

路翎的《财主的儿女们》一般被认为属于成长小说这一体载,但黑格尔的"精神现象学"提供了有用的框架来重新检视这一看法。小说中3个主要人物个体的思维心态对应于黑格尔"精神现象"系统里的自我意识形成的3个阶段:斯多葛主义、怀疑主义与烦恼意识。这一细致分析的结果证明,这一表面上的成长小说只不过是一部独特的反成长小说。对这部小说的"真理内容"的最终解码显现了它的"笨拙"或奇特的语言和风格,乃是源于现代中国知识分子受困的主体性及无法完满形成的自我认知。

This paper tries to use Hegel＇s analysis of the ＂phenomenology of mind＂ as a framework to explore the dialectic between form and content in Lu Ling＇s novel Children of the Rich. It suggests that the mentalities of the three major characters in the novel are roughly corresponding to three stages of self-consciousness in Hegel＇s system： stoicism, skepticism, and unhappy consciousness. It contends that this unique novel is not in the cat- egory of ＂Bildungsroman＂ as generally held, but an aborted, or anti-Bildungsroman, which offers a graphic picture of modem China＇s cultural politics and modem Chinese intel- lectual history.