艺术的嬗变与本雅明“感性意识”的救赎

The Transmutation of Art and the Redemption of Benjamin’s “Sensible Consciousness”

探索人类救赎之路是本雅明的理论旨趣。历史唯物主义为其弥赛亚救赎提供了现实行动路径。唤醒无产阶级和大众被资产阶级意识形态所遮蔽与侵蚀的'感性意识'是本雅明的救赎目标。在资本主义社会异化触角延伸至的艺术领域,本雅明发现了突破和对抗资本原则的重要的救赎力量。唤醒'感性意识'的契机即在当下。机械复制时代艺术作品的灵晕消失,艺术与大众的世俗生活密切联系。本雅明肯定机械复制技术,认为技术的本质作用不是控制自然,而是控制人与自然的关系。大众文化是无法阻挡的历史趋势,应从中汲取实现救赎的养分。艺术的嬗变中孕育着救赎的实践力量。

Exploring the road of human redemption is Benjamin’s theoretical purpose.Historical materialism provides realistic action path for its messiah redemption.It is Benjamin’s goal of redemption to arouse the'sensible consciousness'that the proletariat and the masses are covered and eroded by the bourgeois ideology.In the art field of capitalist society,where the alienation tentacles extend,Benjamin has found a breakthrough and an important redemptive force against the capital principle.The opportunity to awaken'sensible consciousness'is now.The aura of art works of the age of mechanical reproduction disappears;Art is closely related to the secular life of the masses.Benjamin affirms the mechanical reproduction technology and thinks that the essential role of technology is not to control nature but to control the relationship between man and nature.Mass culture is an inexorable historical trend,from which the essence of redemption should be drawn.The transmutation of art breeds the practical power of redemption.