诗哲对话中的“古怪”教授——索尔·贝娄笔下的阿兰·布鲁姆

The “Odd” Professor in the Dialogue between Poetry and Philosophy:The Image of Allan Bloom in Saul Bellow’s Literary Narrative

虽然存在争议,但索尔·贝娄的《拉维尔斯坦》一书无疑是关于著名政治哲学教授阿兰·布鲁姆的传记。从'古怪'一词出发,贝娄呈现了这位好友完整、丰富而真实的人格形象与思想世界:从其'肉身性'开始,逐步推进上升到政治、哲学等公共层面,直到最后要面对的死亡问题。这一传记叙事顺序,恰恰符合布鲁姆所强调的人性的自然秩序。不过,作品又暗含了传记家贝娄与传主布鲁姆的内在对话,是'诗与哲'古老论争的现代演绎,使其处在了这一思想史链条之中。

Disputable as it is,the notable Ravelstein by Saul Bellow is certainly the biography of the well-known political philosophy professor Allan Bloom.Starting from the word'odd',Bellow represents a complete,rich and true-to-life image of his good friend beginning first from the private aspect of his body and sex,and then to the public domains of politics and philosophy until the most serious problem of death.This order of biographical narration follows the natural order of human nature,which is emphasized by Bloom.Nevertheless,the inner dialogue between Bellow the biographer and Bloom the subject is also implied in this work,which can be treated as the modern performance of the classical debate of'Poetry and Philosophy',and it is just this character that embeds the book in the great chain of the history of Western thought.