“每一个他者都是全然的他者”——米勒的《献给德里达》评析

“Every other is the wholly other”:A critical reading of J.Hillis Miller’s For Derrida

"他者"作为一个术语已被广泛运用于性别研究、后殖民研究、族裔文学研究以及各类文学和文化研究中。但其内涵在不同哲学家或文学/化评论家那里不尽相同。在德里达看来,"每一个他者都是全然的他者"。米勒在《献给德里达》中,从德氏晚期思想系统中的关键概念入手,详尽解析并论证其内核是关于"全然的他者"之断言。厘清德氏的这一辩证思想有助于践行米勒所谓的"阅读的伦理",认清解构主义的实质,以便最终实现德氏所说的"将临的民主"。

As an academic term,“the Other”has been applied to a variety of sub-fields such as gender studies,postcolonial studies,ethnic literary studies and a host of other literary and cultural studies,but its connotations and applications differ in the hands of different philosophers and cultural/literary critics.In Derrida’s mind,“every other is the wholly other.”In this collection of 12 commemorative essays entitled For Derrida,Miller carefully combs such important Derridean terms as destinerrance,aporia,performativity,irresponsibilization,autoimmunity and mourning,in hopes of making his argument that every other is the wholly other.An evaluation of the highly dialectical Derridean intellectual legacy can facilitate our practice of the Millerian“ethics of reading”,help us thoroughly understand deconstruction,and thereby bring about Derrida’s“the democracy to come”.