在西方思想史上,本雅明是把“游荡”上升为观察和体验现代性社会的身体实践方式并加以研究的第一人。通过深入考察作为现代性产儿的“游荡者”意象,本雅明把人的身体行为与现代性批判紧密结合起来,在资本主义商品经济运行机制中揭示出游荡者身陷资本主义社会商品化力量整合的生存境遇,并逐渐被同化为“行走的商品”形象的同时,从身体政治学的角度展示出他们具备的现代性英雄素质、现代性批判与人类救赎的“现代英雄”形象。游荡者的辩证形象正是本雅明自己对现代性批判与抗争的最好注脚,不仅展示了他开掘无产阶级革命火种与实现人类彻底救赎的顽强信念,而且表明了他坚决批判和抗争资本主义现代性的鲜明政治立场,更为我们研究和反思资本主义现代性提供了独特的路径和崭新的视角。
Dialectical Image of ''the Flâneur'' : Benjamin's Criticism and Resistance to Modernity
Guo Guang(Henan University)
Abstract In the history of Western thought, Walter Benjamin was the first person to study wandering as a physical practice to observe and experience modern society. Through an in-depth study of the image of the Flâneurs as a product of modernity, Benjamin closely combines human physical behaviors with critique of modernity to reveal in the operation mechanism of capitalist commodity economy, that the Flâneurs are trapped in the integration of commercial forces in capitalist society and gradually assimilated into the image of ''walking commodity''. At the same time, from the perspective of body politics, he unfolds the Flâneurs’ qualities of modern heroes and their image of ''modern heroes'' for modernity criticism and human redemption. The dialectical image of the Flâneurs may well be the perfect incarnation of Benjamin's critique of and struggle against modernity, demonstrating not only his tenacious belief in excavating the flames of proletarian revolution and realizing the complete redemption of mankind, but also his distinctive political position in resolutely criticizing and resisting capitalist modernity, which provides a unique path and a new perspective for us to study and reflect capitalist modernity.
Key words Walter Benjamin; the Flâneur; walking commodity; modern heroes; the critique of modernity
■作者简介 郭 广,哲学博士,河南大学马克思主义研究院研究员;河南 开封 475001。