Aura新释:从本雅明到朱利安

A New Interpretation on Aura:From Walter Benjamin to Francois Jullien

Aura在西方由来已久,经本雅明一再使用与阐释,该概念的某些古老内涵在当代获得了被揭示的可能,如来自古生理学与物质元素论的含义。但囿于西方主流思想路径,即自巴门尼德以来的形而上学传统和近代以笛卡尔为代表的二元论,aura中蕴含的非二元论思想甚少被学界谈及。朱利安借助没有形而上学传统的中国思想,充分发掘了aura中蕴含的前对象化思想;沿着朱利安理解aura的路径,能进一步发现西方古今都有异于主流形而上学的非二元论思想资源,如《蒂迈欧篇》的“子宫间”与梅洛庞蒂的“肉”。从中西的这些资源出发,能更充分地理解aura中蕴含的精神与物质、灵与肉、主体与客体、时间与空间不再截然二分的非对象化观念,发现一个永恒流变的生活世界。

As a time-honored concept in the West,Aura has been repeatedly used by Walter Benjamin through whom the forgotten implications of Aura have been partly revealed,such as the meanings from paleophysiology and ancient material element theory.However,confined to the metaphysical tradition from Parmenides and the modern dualism represented by Descartes which are the authoritative ways of thinking in the West,the non-dualistic thoughts of Aura are ignored by academia.Francois Jullien fully exploits the pre-objective thoughts buried in Aura in virtue of Chinese thought without metaphysics.Following Jullien s path,we further find that there are also non-dualistic ideological resources in the West,such as Kh ra in Timaeus and Flesh from Maurice Merleau-Ponty.Starting from these thoughts,we no longer think that spirit and material,mind and body,subject and object,time and space are dichotomous and therefore fully understand the non-objective idea contained in Aura.There is a living world of ever-changing process.