自然“爆破”历史:从本雅明到阿多诺

NATURE "BLOWING UP" HISTORY:FROM BENJAMIN TO ADORNO

德国学者本雅明主张打破当下的历史连续性 ,重新揭示历史的内在意义 ,但由于他没有真正回到现实历史的内在性 ,所以 ,受到了法兰克福学派代表人物之一阿多诺的批判。阿多诺继承了本雅明对恶的历史连续性所展开的批判 ,但放弃了本雅明的理论天真 ,回到了人类有史以来所面对的真实自然 ,于是 ,自然成了历史救赎的现实中介。但是 ,自然作为中介 ,只有在摆脱了人本主义历史观之后 ,才会对历史的救赎产生现实的意义。

Walter Benjamin advocated breaking up the historical continuity and then rediscovering the latent significance of history. But as he did not return in the real sense to the internality of the realistic history,he was criticized by Theodor W. Adorno,one of the representatives of the Frankfurt School. Adorno carried on Benjamin's critique of the continuity of the evil history,but put away his theoretical innocence and returned to the real nature which man has faced since the beginning of history. Thus nature becomes the realistic medium of historical atonement. However,only when humanistic conception of history is abandoned,can nature as a medium be of realistic significance for historical atonement.