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文艺理论研究 ›› 2024, Vol. 44 ›› Issue (2): 208-217.

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作为“伦理实验室”的虚构叙事——保罗·利科叙事伦理学研究

肖文婷   

  • 出版日期:2024-03-25 发布日期:2024-06-12
  • 作者简介:肖文婷,文学博士,郑州大学文学院讲师,主要从事西方文学理论及叙事学研究。
  • 基金资助:
    国家社会科学基金重大项目“改革开放40年文学理论学术史研究与文献整理”[项目编号:19ZDA262]的阶段性成果。

Fictional Narrative as an “Ethical Laboratory”: A Study of Paul Ricoeur's Narrative Ethics

Xiao Wenting   

  • Online:2024-03-25 Published:2024-06-12
  • About author:Xiao Wenting, Ph.D., is a lecturer in the School of Chinese Language and Literature, Zhengzhou University. Her research interests include Western literary theory and narratology.
  • Supported by:
    Major Project of National Social Sciences Fund (19ZDA262).

摘要: 从韦恩·布斯的奠定基调到詹姆斯·费伦的扎实推进,叙事伦理学从20世纪90年代起应运而生,逐渐发展为包容多项批评方式的研究进路。相较于布斯对作者意图的强调、费伦对读者阅读伦理的重视,保罗·利科极富创见地将作者、读者置于虚构叙事建构的“伦理实验室”中,把对单一伦理主体的重视转移到对作者文本读者三者伦理意义的动态生成过程之中。在他看来,虚构叙事不仅是作者将其“思想”图式化,展开伦理探询的实验场所,也是读者“占有”伦理实验,练习实践智慧,从而达成“从文本到行动”的转化力量的实践基地。这一看法创造性地将虚构叙事视为作者与读者伦理实践的实验场所,为叙事学的伦理分析开辟了新的研究思路。

关键词: 伦理实验室, 善的生活, 不协调的协调性, 实践智慧

Abstract: Since its inception with Wayne C. Booth and the development of James Phelan, narrative ethics has evolved since its emergence in the 1990s into a research framework encompassing diverse critical methodolgies. In contrast to Booth's emphasis on the author's intention and Phelan's focus on the reader's reading ethics, Paul Ricoeur develops a creative view of placing the author and the reader in an “ethical laboratory” constructed by the fictional narrative, shifting the focus from a single ethical subject to the dynamic process of generating the ethical significance of the author, the text and the reader. In addition to considering fictional narrative as an experimental site for schematizing the author's “thought” and implementing ethical inquiry, he also thinks that fictional narrative is a practical basis for readers to achieve the power of transformation “from text to action” by “appropriating” ethical experiments and practicing practical wisdom. Therefore, the creativity of this view is to consider fictional narrative as the experimental site for the ethical practice of authors and readers, thus offering a new research idea for the ethical analysis of narratology.

Key words: ethical laboratory, good life, discordant concordance, practical wisdom