The Enchantment of Modern Life: Attachments, Crossings, and Ethics. Jane Bennett
The Enchantment of Modern Life: Attachments, Crossings, and Ethics. Jane Bennett
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现代生活的魅力：依恋、交叉和道德。
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10.1086/jop.64.4.1520094
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2002
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贝内特的思路如下。魅力将我们与世界联系在一起，从而为道德参与提供了情感动机。《魅惑》通过向我们展示一个“充满活力、奇特而充满活力”的世界，让我们充满活力和活力（162），从中汲取丰富的能量。她写道，“在我看来，假定的慷慨，以及对社会正义的意愿，是由对存在的迷恋周期性发作来维持的”（12）。然而，现代性的理性化过程——或者更准确地说是“祛魅故事”，比如马克斯•韦伯、汉斯•布鲁门伯格或西蒙•克里奇利讲述的那些将祛魅效应归因于这一过程的故事——威胁着我们对世界的依恋。一个幻灭的世界是一个“平坦的”、“沉闷的”、“沉闷的”、“没有吸引力的”、“没有生命的”和“存在上不令人满意的地方”。没有某种情感关系——没有对世界的“积极肯定”和“爱”——现代恶魔般的怀疑主义、无神论和虚无主义，以及伴随而来的无目的感和无意义感，可能会使每一个伦理计划变得无力和徒劳。幸运的是，现代性的祛魅故事可以被其他故事抵消，这就是其中之一，它显示了现代生活中魅力来源的持久性。按照班尼特的说法，魔法是一种既令人愉悦又不可思议的感觉。它是“一种充实、充足或充满活力的情绪”(5)和“对存在的伟大和不可思议的事实充满活力和不安的感觉”（159）。她的意思是，在她2000年的总统选举中，吉尼尔和托雷斯关于如何纳入真正的公民偏好的理论和建议更加及时和重要。《矿工的金丝雀》是一本重要的书，它可以帮助我们扩大对政治可能性的看法。研究中描述的公民相互之间表现良好并努力解决社会问题以造福社区中每个人的实例是鼓舞人心的。我们对政治的玩世不恭往往是基于我们的经验，即我们的投票和声音似乎没有带来任何改变。在政体中更多地代表全体公民的改革可以基于这本智慧的书中的见解。民主理论家以及研究代议制、公共政策、利益集团和社会运动的学者会发现，吉尼尔和托雷斯针对未来积极进步的政治改革的见解和证据是不可或缺的。
Bennett's line of thought is as follows. Enchantment attaches us to the world and thus provides the affective motive for ethical engagement. Enchantment energizes and enlivens us by presenting us with a world that is" vibrant, quirky, and overflowing"(162), with an abundance of energy from which we may draw. She writes," It seems to me that presumptive generosity, as well as the will to social justice, are sustained by periodic bouts of being enamored with existence"(12). However, the process of rationalization in modernity-or more precisely the" disenchantment tales," such as those told by Max Weber, Hans Blumenberg, or Simon Critchley, that attribute the effect of disenchantment to this process-threatens our attachment to the world. A disenchanted world is a" flat,"" dull,"" dreary,"" unenticing,"" lifeless," and" existentially unsatisfying place." Without some affective relationship-without" active affirmation" and" love" for the world-the modern demons of skepticism, atheism, and nihilism and their accompanying feelings of purposelessness and meaninglessness threaten to render every ethical project powerless and vain. Luckily, the disenchantment tales of modernity can be counteracted with alter-tales, of which this is one, that show the persistence of sources of enchantment in modern life. On Bennett's telling, enchantment is a feeling both pleasurable and uncanny. It is" a mood of fullness, plentitude, or liveliness"(5) and" that energizing and unsettling sense of the great and incredible fact of existence"(159). She means her2000 presidential election, Guinier and Torres's theories about and suggestions for how to incorporate true citizen preferences are even more timely and important. The Miner's Canary is an important book that can help us expand our visions of what is possible politically. The instances described within the study in which citizens behaved well toward each other and labored to solve social problems to the benefit of everyone in the community are inspiring. Our political cynicism is often based on our experiences of how our votes and voices did not seem to make any difference. Reforms that represent all citizens more within the polity can be based on the insights in this wise book. Democratic theorists as well as scholars of representation, public policy, interest groups, and social movements will find Guinier and Torres's insights and evidence aimed at future positive progressive political reforms indispensable.