论李普曼新闻思想在中国的早期传播与影响

本文对李普更新闻思想在中国的早期传播及其带来的影响进行了分析.     

从翻译的时代到直译的时代——基于贝尔曼视域之上的本雅明

自八十年代翻译理论研究出现“文化转向”以来,本雅明的《译者的任务》几乎被所有翻译理论研究者奉为“圣经”。本雅明究竟在《译者的任务》中如何触及翻译的本质问题的？他又是基于怎样的“形而上”的语言观来谈论翻译的本质？法国哲学家、翻译家安托万?贝尔曼（Antoine Berman）所著的《翻译的时代》对本雅明做出了完整、丰富同时又深入的解读。本文旨在依据《翻译的时代》所提供的理论视域,指出本雅明对传统翻译观的三个“颠覆”,并试图对《译者的任务》中所针对的翻译本质问题、可译性问题和直译问题有所澄清。     

C. Walter Hodges: A Life Illustrating History

C. Walter Hodges first came to prominence as the author/illustrator of Columbus Sails in 1939, which the Junior Bookshelf hailed as The best book never to have been awarded the Carnegie Medal. Widely acclaimed for the treatment of its subject matter, its powerful narration, and accompanying dramatic line illustrations, Columbus Sails was the first of a number of vivid historical novels written and illustrated by Hodges, including The Namesake (nominated for the 1964 Carnegie Medal), The Marsh King (1967), and The Overland Launch (1969). He is internationally recognised both for his indispensable and learned books about the Elizabethan theatre (for which he gained the Kate Greenaway Medal for illustration in 1964) and his vital illustrations to other authors' texts. This timely article is based on interviews and correspondence between the author and Hodges, and traces and celebrates the latter's life and career as a writer, book illustrator, teacher, and scholar.     

本雅明美学视野下的"震惊"艺术

本雅明认为机械复制时代的到来,不仅使得人们的传统"经验"逐步被普遍的"震惊"体验所替代,而且传统的"灵韵"艺术也在"震惊"中四散。以电影为代表的发达资本主义时代的"震惊"艺术具有艺术政治化、民主化的革命潜能,但其理论的精彩也难掩其美学的乌托邦色彩。     

批评即展现——本雅明艺术批评思想研究

作为法兰克福学派第一代的重要成员，本雅明的艺术批评思想较之该派同仁有着很大的不同．他认为艺术批评就是完成对真理的认识，并把语言解读为一种被传达的客体，进而以此出发，将艺术看作取代哲学理性而承栽着认知真理的载体——其样式在现时代只能是“寓言”式的。     

Democracy or Republic: Answering a Frequent Reference Question

This article frames the issues that the writers of the U.S. Constitution left as one of their writing legacies. The writers settled on the idea of founding a republic rather than a monarchy or democracy because they believed it the most stable form of government available to them. Their debate over “republic or democracy” found its way quickly into political discourse, with theoreticians like Will Butts and Eugene Volokh offering different views about which terms worked best to describe some of the political disagreements of modern times. This essay is best read in association with the short article on civic education by Reneé Critcher Lyons, which follows this article.     

李约瑟与史华兹眼中的老子“自然”观

从李约瑟与史华兹的作品来看，两人提出的共同议题主要在于老子的“自然”观是否可与西方之科学的自然主义寻获共通性。由此而展开如下的议题：1．道家之“道”，李约瑟认为有如希腊哲学中Heracletus(赫拉克利特)的主宰(logos)，史华兹却以为中国思想中不存在化约主义(reductionism)的倾向；2．“自然”的统一性和自发性；3．道家对自然之态度及其科学观察之心理一“静心”，李约瑟认为可与希腊Epicurean(伊比鸠鲁)和Democritus(德谟克利特)原子论的观念相提并论；史华兹则以为“静心”虽可与科学家处理自然的态度共同使用，但事实上并不能提供任何有力的证据，说明老子从事“自然的观察”或“科学的探究”。而史华兹除了以多元的角度来反思李约瑟的观点，又提及老子的二元对立说可与希腊哲学中Anaximander(阿那克西曼德)与Heracleitus(赫拉克利特)的二元辩证法作比较。     

Recommended for “frequent perusal” and “improving the science of medicine”: Benjamin Rush’s American editions and the circulation of medical knowledge in the early Republic

Between 1809 and 1813 leading American physician Benjamin Rush (1745–1813) devoted a significant portion of his time to the production of “American Editions” of four British and colonial medical texts by Thomas Sydenham (1624–1689), Sir John Pringle (1707–1782), William Hillary (1697–1763), and George Cleghorn (1716–1789). This occurred during a period where Rush might have written a textbook detailing his preferred medical system for students outright. Instead, he opted for a different form of knowledge production and proliferation that focused on creating fictive conversations and encouraging critical reading rather than rote memorization. He dedicated these heavily annotated documents to the medical students of the United States of America and set them up as a pedagogical tool. Analysis of these texts helps uncover the reading practices of Rush and the manner in which he expected Americans to mediate their usage of foreign texts and theories after the American Revolution.     

本雅明灵韵理论的文学人类学阐释及诗学价值

"灵韵"是德国文学批评家本雅明文艺理论的核心概念。它具有"独一无二性"、"距离"感、经验的"真确性"、对象的"权威性",以及神秘的"永久性"等特性。从文学人类学的视野阐释这一概念,它具有神话信仰渊源与文学的仪式功能、自然人化的审美经验与生态审美的文学体验、讲故事的口传文学传统与对话性叙事等人类学维度。本雅明灵韵理论凸显了文艺从现代性到后现代性的关联性,能为传统文艺作品的"袪魅"走向数码时代文艺作品的"复魅"提供新的解释,具有重要的诗学价值。     

容器的碎片——《道德经》“道”之英译的本雅明式解读

《道德经》里的"道"在阐释上具有极大的开放性,这使得"道"的英译产生多个变体。如果以与原作涵义忠实贴近的程度标准来解读评断"道"的英译现象并不可行。借助瓦尔特.本雅明的语言观和翻译观来解读"道"的英译可以获得关于对该现象和名词翻译的新认知。