时间星丛中的游荡者——论本雅明现代性思想中的时间观念

The Flaneur in Time’s Constellation: On the Idea of Time in Walter Benjamin’s Thinking about Modernity

本文主要聚焦于本雅明的时间星丛概念,探讨谈论本雅明的时间观念。本雅明的现代性思考的根基就在于对时间的创造性阐释,即创造了一种与过去构成星丛关系的当下,从而摧毁和解构了现代性的时间观。在这样一种时间观中,历史被表述为过去与当下之间的辩证历史,直线历史时间被截停,被压抑记忆的乌托邦潜能得以释放,从而使得当下时间转变成为具有一个包含伦理力量的时刻。游荡者(Flaneur)正是这一时间体验的承受者和揭示者。

This paper focuses on Walter Benjamin’s concept of time constellation, then discusses Benjamin’s idea of time. The foundation of Benjamin’s thinking about modernity lies in his creative interpretation of time, in which the present relates with the past in a constellation, thus destroying and reconstructing the idea of the modernity of time. In such a temporal model, history is expressed as a dialectical exchange between the past and the present. The straight line of historical time is cut off and the utopian potential of repressed memory is released. Thus it changes the present into a moment with ethical power. The flaneur is the bearer and revealer of this experience of time.