Radical hope: Ethics in the face of cultural devastation
Radical hope: Ethics in the face of cultural devastation
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激进的希望：面对文化破坏的道德
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2017
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Jami Petner
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Jami Petner
在他去世前不久，克劳族最后一位伟大的酋长Plenty Coups讲述了他的故事。直到某一点。“水牛走了以后，我的人民的心都掉到地上了，”他说，“他们再也抬不起来了。这之后什么也没发生。”就是这个点吗？一个民族面临着自己生活方式的终结？激发了《激进的希望》中所追求的哲学和伦理探究。在乔纳森·李尔看来，《富足政变》的故事提出了一个深刻的伦理问题，这个问题超越了他的时代，并向我们所有人提出了挑战：一个人应该如何面对自己的文化可能崩溃的可能性？这是一个影响我们所有人的弱点？因为我们都是一种文明的居民，而文明本身容易受到历史力量的影响。我们该如何面对这种脆弱？我们有勇气面对这样的挑战吗？利用现有的人类学和印第安部落被限制在保留地期间的历史，并借鉴哲学和精神分析理论，李尔探索了陷入僵局的乌鸦族的故事，因为它与这些问题有关。这些问题关系到我们在世界上的地位。他的书是对一种特殊的脆弱性的深刻揭示和深刻感人的哲学探究，这种脆弱性直指人类状况的核心。
Shortly before he died, Plenty Coups, the last great Chief of the Crow Nation, told his story?up to a certain point. “When the buffalo went away the hearts of my people fell to the ground,” he said, “and they could not lift them up again. After this nothing happened.” It is precisely this point?that of a people faced with the end of their way of life?that prompts the philosophical and ethical inquiry pursued in Radical Hope. In Jonathan Lear’s view, Plenty Coups’s story raises a profound ethical question that transcends his time and challenges us all: how should one face the possibility that one’s culture might collapse? This is a vulnerability that affects us all?insofar as we are all inhabitants of a civilization, and civilizations are themselves vulnerable to historical forces. How should we live with this vulnerability? Can we make any sense of facing up to such a challenge courageously? Using the available anthropology and history of the Indian tribes during their confinement to reservations, and drawing on philosophy and psychoanalytic theory, Lear explores the story of the Crow Nation at an impasse as it bears upon these questions?and these questions as they bear upon our own place in the world. His book is a deeply revealing, and deeply moving, philosophical inquiry into a peculiar vulnerability that goes to the heart of the human condition.