Dreaming of dragons: On the imagination of real life
Dreaming of dragons: On the imagination of real life
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梦见龙：谈现实生活的想象
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2013
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T. Ingold
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本文借鉴了对中世纪修道院制度和北方本土本体论的研究，展示了我们如何弥合现实世界与我们对现实世界的想象之间的断裂，这支撑着现代科学的官方程序。尽管科学并不反对将想象中的梦想作为新奇见解的潜在来源，但它们却被从它试图揭示的现实中排除了。自培根和伽利略以来，大自然一直被认为是一本不愿意向人类读者透露其秘密的书。然而，自然之书的想法可以追溯到中世纪。对于中世纪读者和土著猎人来说，生物会说话并提供建议。但在向现代性的转变过程中，这本书陷入了沉默。本文建议，通过承认我们对一个超越人类的世界的想象力参与，以及由此带来的承诺，我们可以调和科学探究与宗教情感作为认识存在的方式。
This article draws on studies of medieval monasticism and northern indigenous ontologies to show how we might heal the rupture between the real world and our imagination of it, which underpins the official procedures of modern science. Though science is not averse to dreams of the imagination as potential sources of novel insight, they are banished from the reality it seeks to uncover. Ever since Bacon and Galileo, nature has been thought of as a book that will not willingly give up its secrets to human readers. The idea of the book of nature, however, dates from medieval times. For medieval readers as for indigenous hunters, creatures would speak and offer counsel. But in the transition to modernity the book was silenced. This article suggests that by acknowledging our imaginative participation in a more-than-human world, and the commitments this entails, we can reconcile scientific inquiry with religious sensibility as ways of knowing in being.