Event and Art: Lyotard's Politics of Phrase and the Postmodern Sublime

Abstract

Abstract: Starting from the relationship between modern French philosophy and event and time, this article attempts to expound the main idea of the politics of phrase oriented to différend, to compare the differences and similarities between Kant's reflective judgment and the judgment of Lyotard, to analyze the reasons why postmodern art finally leads to the sublime, and thus to point out the special significance of event to postmodern theories. In the end, this article reflects on the oscillation of postmodern theories between the activeness and passiveness of the subject, and the price that elites have to pay for detaching themselves from reality.

Key words: event, différend, phrase, postmodern, sublime

Zhou Hui. Event and Art: Lyotard's Politics of Phrase and the Postmodern Sublime[J]. Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art, 2016, 36(6): 73-80.

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(1)“différend”指“冲突”“分歧”或“争论”。译成“异识”,一是可以表达该词的本意,二则有意与哈贝马斯的“共识”相对,暗示知识分子为走出现代性危机而选择的两种截然不同的方案。参见拙文“利奥塔的‘异识’论”,《哲学研究》8(2015):61 67。
(2)在法语中,phrase有“句子”“短语”之意,但是作为语用事件的“phrase”却可以既不是句子,也不是短语。在这里,“语位”就是“事件”之义,是语用学的基本单位。

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