癫狂美学之光的陨落——福柯笔下的“疯人之旅”

The Fall of the Light of Madness Aesthetics: Foucault’s “Madman’s Journey”

《古典时期的癫狂史》是福柯最重要的著作之一,权力关系的复杂较量在巨大的历史空间中被清晰呈现,癫狂的历史,是理性对非理性捕捉的历史,也是今天的我们"是其所是"的历史。但这部重要的著作因其抽象和艰涩,使得福柯的考古学方法和话语理论很难被真正理解和准确运用,常常与内容分析等方法混淆。面对这样的难题,本文以深描的方式,并结合对文艺复兴的历史空间中的重要艺术和文学文本的理解,非常具体地勾勒出癫狂话语嬗变的图谱,从美学的角度去发掘癫狂之美陨落的轨迹,是对考古学方法具体化的一种新的尝试。

The history of madness in the classical period is one of Foucault’s most important works. The complex contest of power relations is clearly presented in the huge historical space. The history of madness is the history of rationality catching irrationality, and today’s history of what we are. However, due to its abstract and obscure nature, Foucault’s archaeological method and discourse theory are difficult to understand, and are often confused with content analysis and other methods. Thus this paper, in the way of deep description and in combination with the understanding of important art and literature texts in the historical space of the Renaissance, outlines the map of the evolution of madness discourse in a very specific way, and explores the track of the fall of madness beauty from the perspective of aesthetics, which is a new attempt to concretize the research methods of antiquity.