Aristotelian Negotiations: Intertwining of the Theory of Tragedy and the History of Knowledge (Renewal Proposal)

亚里士多德谈判：悲剧理论与知识史的交织（更新提案）

• 批准号: 276860685
• 负责人: Dr. Arata Takeda
• 金额: --
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2014-12-31 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/276860685?language=en
• 关键词: Aristotelian; Negotiations; Intertwining; Theory; Tragedy

In the course of investigating the trajectory and outcomes of the Aristotelian negotiations, i.e. the controversies over the apparent contradiction between chapters 13 and 14 of Aristotle’s “Poetics” within the theory of tragedy between Renaissance and Enlightenment, it has become clear that the favoring of the poetics of hard pathos (chapter 13) and the marginalization of the poetics of soft pathos (chapter 14) result from causes that are, besides being specifically related to the history of theory, also generally rooted in the history of knowledge. The difficulty with the argument of chapter 14 lay not only in its ‘contradiction’ with that of chapter 13 but also, on a much more fundamental level, in its conspicuous discrepancy with a traditional authoritative knowledge that can be identified as the stereotype of the unhappy ending in tragedy. This stereotype, which runs blatantly counter to the philological facts, has its roots in a knowledge tradition reaching far back into the antiquity, a tradition that shaped systematically the mediaeval idea of tragedy (and comedy) without any connection to drama and theater and continues to have a powerful effect on the popular notion of tragedy to this day. The argument of chapter 14 had to become a problem already in view of this stereotype, for it clearly seemed to prioritize the happy ending. These observations lead to the formulation of a problem that was not envisaged in the framework of the initial proposal but appears to be decisive for the final quality of the project. The visibly close entanglement of the Aristotelian negotiations with the history of the impact of the stereotype of the unhappy ending in tragedy requires a complementary investigation of the changing relation between fact-based philological knowledge, special poetological knowledge, and popular stereotypical knowledge within the history of the theory of tragedy. The Aristotelian negotiations can only be comprehensively and meaningfully described if this relation and its important points of interaction are fully integrated into the concluding considerations. The project is therefore faced with the additional task of investigating, in a broader context of the history of knowledge, how significantly the stereotype of the unhappy ending in tragedy has affected the trajectory of the Aristotelian negotiations and to what extent the single arguments that are put forward for or against the poetics of soft pathos take profit from the philological questioning of the stereotype or continue to be dictated by the regime of the stereotype. With this renewal proposal the project intends, in conjunction with the previous work, to make a pioneering contribution to an understanding of tragedy that is aware of the problems posed by the history of poetology as well as the history of knowledge.

在考察亚里士多德谈判的轨迹和结果，即文艺复兴与启蒙运动之间悲剧理论中亚里士多德《诗学》第13章和第14章之间明显矛盾的争论过程中，很明显，对强烈悲情诗学的偏爱（第13章）和软感伤诗学的边缘化（第14章）的原因，除了与理论史具体相关外，还普遍植根于知识史。第14章论证的困难不仅在于它与第13章论证的“矛盾”，而且在更根本的层面上，在于它与传统权威知识的明显差异，这种知识可以被认为是悲剧中不幸结局的刻板印象。这种刻板印象与语言学事实公然背道而驰，其根源在于一种知识传统，可以追溯到古代，这种传统系统地塑造了中世纪的悲剧（和喜剧）观念，与戏剧和戏剧没有任何联系，并继续对悲剧的流行观念产生强大的影响。鉴于这种刻板印象，第14章的论点已经成为一个问题，因为它显然似乎优先考虑幸福结局。这些意见导致提出了一个问题，这个问题在最初的提案框架中没有设想到，但似乎对项目的最后质量具有决定性意义。阿伦特式的谈判与悲剧中不幸结局的刻板印象的影响的历史明显紧密地纠缠在一起，这需要对基于事实的语言学知识、特殊的诗学知识和悲剧理论史中流行的刻板印象知识之间的变化关系进行补充性的研究。只有将这种关系及其重要的互动点充分纳入最后的考虑，才能全面和有意义地描述阿斯特丽德谈判。因此，该项目面临着在更广泛的知识史背景下调查的额外任务，悲剧中不幸结局的刻板印象如何显著地影响了亚里士多德谈判的轨迹，以及在多大程度上，支持或反对温柔悲怆诗学的单一论点从对刻板印象的语言学质疑中获益，或者继续由制度的刻板印象。通过这一更新建议，该项目打算与以前的工作相结合，为理解悲剧做出开创性的贡献，这种悲剧意识到诗学史和知识史所带来的问题。