时间/事件:对本雅明的一种总体化释读

Time/Event:Toward a Totalizational Interpretation of Benjamin

“时间/事件”视角是一个打破既定本雅明研究分析框架的理论契机。在《德意志悲苦剧的起源》中,本雅明讨论了作为悲苦剧题材的历史事件、象征和寄喻所内置的时间维度以及悲苦剧情节、舞台、人物设计中体现出的时间与因果性问题;在《讲故事的人》中,本雅明讨论了小说与故事中的时间/事件、死亡与时间/事件的关系;在《历史的概念》中,本雅明分析了Erkennbarkeit(可被辨识)与Augenbilck(片刻)、Jetztziet(此时此刻)与线性历史之间的辩证关系问题,也提出了自己对于历史唯物主义和时间/事件关系的理解。总之,“时间/事件”视角有助于清晰描绘出本雅明作为革命理论家的核心理念与思想谱系。

To break the existing analysis framework of Walter Benjamin and his thoughts,this paper adopts a perspective of″time/event″.In Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiels,Walter Benjamin discussed history events as Trauerspiels′subjects,temporal dimension of the symbol and allegory,time and causality of Trauerspiels′plot,setting and characters.In The Storyteller,Benjamin discussed the time/event of novel and story,and the relation between death and time.In On the Concept of History,Benjamin investigated the dialectical relations between Erkennbarkeit and Augenbilck,Jetztziet and the linear history,and proposed his interpretation about historical materialism and time/event.In short,the perspective of time/event helps to clearly illustrate the core ideas and thought genealogy of Walter Benjamin as a revolutionary theorist.