主旨发言预告（三）|| Vladimir Biti：Positional Outsiders and the Ethics...

国际文学伦理学批评研究会

第九届文学伦理学批评

国际学术研讨会

—— 中国·杭州 ——

2019年11月8日-10日

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会议介绍

      第九届文学伦理学批评国际学术研讨会将于2019年11月8日至10日在浙江大学外国语言文化与国际交流学院召开，热忱欢迎国内外学者与会。会议报名的截止日期是2019年9月20日，请有意与会的学者朋友将参会回执提交至会议专用信箱[e-mail]。

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会议动态

    本届年会将邀请30余位国内外知名学者出席会议，并设38个分论坛。

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主旨发言预告（三）

Vladimir Biti

Vladimir Biti，欧洲科学院院士，欧洲科学院文学与戏剧研究分部主席，维也纳大学文学与文化研究院世界文学与比较文学教授。1996年至2004年任国际符号学研究协会执行董事，2001年至2005年任国际比较文学协会文学理论委员会主席，2005年至2010年任国际比较文学协会执行委员会委员。现担任国际权威学术期刊Arcadia: International Journal of Literary Culture主编。他致力于世界主义、民族主义文学、文化批评、创伤理论、叙事理论等领域的研究，出版《诉未言之语：文学、历史、理论》（1994）《文学与文化理论：现代术语手册》（2001）《废弃证书的时代：克罗地亚当代散文的身份建构》（2005）等多部著作，发表论文百余篇。

Positional Outsiders and the Ethics of Narrative:

The Case of Franz Kafka

After the First World War, the first modern laboratory for testing the state of exception, the latter becomes the dominant paradigm of government in Europe, reducing the distinct identities of many people to bare life. Without having done anything wrong, they are calmly eliminated from their states’ citizen rights. The political reconfiguration after the breakup of empires bereaves them of their human status, forcing them into a subhuman existence. I will depart from the thesis that these “positional outsiders” become the sources of some post-imperial writers’ ethical commitment. From their perspective, literature ought to be derived from the “zones of indistinction” (Agamben) as the containers of that which the historical world has pushed into oblivion. These zones summon writers to redeem their inhabitants. Hugo von Hofmannsthal saw as his sacrificial task to take the position of an entirely deprived being exposed to denigration by placing himself at the service of the “suffering of the thousands”. Kafka frequently addressed his authorial commitment to such an utterly dispossessed position, exempted from the living world into the realm of the dead. However, at the same time, he was aware of the insidious character of this operation, which enjoys the comfort of detachment withhold to the figures who are forced to die as well as the readers who really suffer because of that. By exposing such weaknesses of ‘inferior beings’, the author calculatingly outmaneuvers Last Judgment as the criterion of their behavior. “I am not really striving to be good”, writes Kafka, “but very much the contrary”, to become “the only sinner who won’t be roasted”. I will explore the consequences of this political contamination of his narrative ethics.

  责任编辑 | 任洁、汤轶丽

审校| 尚必武

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