神话与梦境:奥克肖特理解政治文明的另类隐喻

The Myth and the Dream:Oakeshott’s Alternative Metaphor to Understand the Political Civilization

奥克肖特是当代英国著名的保守主义政治哲学家。他对“政治文明”的理解诗意而深邃,独树一帜。在他看来,“政治文明”是“一个集体主义之梦”,是一个神话,是可以区别于政治个体与政治社会的另一话语场域。当然,奥克肖特的思想表达并不直白,他是借助于作品的思想碎片中丰富的隐喻实现的。他以“生活”“文明”“神话”“梦”作为重要的隐喻性概念,通过概念的互释与意涵衍伸,搭建起政治文明诗意性理解的逻辑架构。实际上,与奥克肖特对政治个体与政治社会的理解一致,他对政治文明的理解同样贯穿到他对诗歌意象的诗意逻辑之中。有着“在梦”特征的文明之维神话的隐喻,实质上就作为了有着“此在”喻意的“上帝”进行审美自我立法的诗意形式。

Oakeshott is a famous conservative political philosopher in contemporary Britain.His understanding of"political civilization"is poetic and profound.In his view,"political civilization"is"a dream of collectiv­ism",which is a myth,which can lie distinguished from another discourse field of political individuals and political society.Of course,Oakeshott's ideas are not straightforward,he is realized by the rich metaphor of the thought fragments of his works.With the concept of"life","civilization","myth"and"dream"as an important metaphorical concept,he constructs the logical Structure of poetic understanding of political civilization through the mutual in­terpretation and implication of concepts.In fact,with Oakeshott understand­ing of political individual and society,his understanding of the political civili­zation also through to his poetic logic of poetic imagery.The“myth”meta­phor,which has the characteristic of"in a dream",the essentially as a"god"of"this"metaphor for aesthetic poetic form of self-legislation.