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文艺理论研究 ›› 2014, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (6): 38-59.

• 西方文论与美学研究 • 上一篇    下一篇

作为文本/反文本的《资本主义与自由》:弗里德曼新自由主义准则的解构和去中心化

约瑟夫·格雷戈里·马奥尼   

  1. 华东师范大学政治学系;中央编译局;复旦大学社会科学高等研究院
  • 出版日期:2014-11-25 发布日期:2014-12-07
  • 作者简介:约瑟夫·格雷戈里·马奥尼,华东师范大学政治学系教授;中央编译局(北京)高级研究员;复旦大学社会科学高等研究院研究员;美国《中国政治学刊》助理编辑;《复旦大学人文社会科学论丛》编辑;其研究成果多次在中西方杂志上发表,包括《马克思主义与现实》《国外理论动态》《毛泽东思想与邓小平理论研究》《社会科学》《反思马克思主义》等;曾参与翻译英文版《江泽民文选》。

Capitalism and Freedom as Text/Antitext: Deconstructing and Decentering Friedman’s Neoliberal Canon

Josef Gregory Mahoney   

  1. Politics, East China Normal University; Central Compilation and Translation Bureau (Beijing); Institute for Advanced Studies, Fudan University
  • Online:2014-11-25 Published:2014-12-07
  • About author:Josef Gregory Mahoney, Professor of Politics, East China Normal University; Senior Researcher, Central Compilation and Translation Bureau (Beijing); Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies, Fudan University; Assistant Editor, US-based Journal of Chinese Political Science; and Editor, the Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences. His publications have appeared in Chinese and Western journals, including Marxism and Reality, Foreign Theoretical Trends, the Journal of Studies in Mao Zedong Thought and Deng Xiaoping Theory, Science & Society, Rethinking Marxism, and others. He was a member of the Chinese team that translated Jiang Zemin's Selected Works into English.

摘要: 米尔顿·弗里德曼的新自由主义理论与雅克·德里达的解构主义思想存在一种意外的相似性,可以说二者都包含了海德格尔式的资本主义解释学,且都通过阐释激进的选择自由对“正义”一词做出了反动的论述。德里达眼中的主观自由正是弗里德曼在市场中赋予我们的权利。这种相似性使得我们可以借助德里达的理论重新解读弗里德曼,且确保这种解读不会没有成果。更重要的是,在此前的10年间,新自由主义在全球决策者中受欢迎程度之高令人咂舌,这也引发了2008年的全球金融危机。尽管如今我们已迈出了经济重建的步伐,但来自各地的决策者仍不断高呼重振弗里德曼的理论。故本文的写作目的在于反驳弗里德曼传播到世界各地的消极思想,从而解构其主要著作。在此过程中,笔者将揭露这位虽自称是哲学家和反马克思主义理论家的资本主义经济学家在理论和思想中的矛盾之处。

关键词: 德里达, 弗里德曼, 解构, 新自由主义, 激进的选择自由

Abstract: An odd symmetry appears when reading Milton Friedman's canonical neoliberalism in tandem with Jacques Derrida's deconstructive techniques: both authors, it can be argued, are ensconced in a Heideggerian, capitalist hermeneutic. Both offer reactionary discourses for "justice" per their respective paradigms of a radical freedom of choice. This congruence marks a special opening — not just the standard invitation to deconstructive relativism — to re-read Friedman in a manner consistent with Derridean, subjective freedoms that Friedman would otherwise ascribe us in the marketplace. More importantly, this re-reading takes place following a ten-year period that saw global neoliberalism reach absurd heights of popularity among policymakers and in turn, spark a global financial crisis in 2008. Today, incredibly, we continue to hear calls from some corners to return to Friedman as we move forward and try to rebuild economically. Our purpose here, therefore, is to deconstruct Friedman's primary texts, and to do so in a manner that pushes back against the sort of destructive thinking he helped popularize worldwide.In doing so, we will reveal the inconsistencies one should expect from a still celebrated bourgeois economist who fancied himself a philosopher and Karl Marx's antithesis.

Key words: Derrida, Friedman, deconstruction, neoliberal canon, radical freedom of choice