思想:界限及其违犯的话语——福柯越界思想探究
作者简介:莫伟民,复旦大学哲学学院教授(上海 200433)。
摘要: 福柯思想不仅跨界,更是越界,越过学科固有的边界而进行别样的思考和探究,敲打、动摇直至摧毁传统思想学说。福柯不仅要突破笛卡尔理性主义的界限,还要根除康德人类学主体主义和胡塞尔先验主体哲学,不仅要切断传统历史主义的线性因果关系链条,还要逾越本质主义权力观的思想雷区。福柯推崇马克思、尼采、弗洛伊德的批判精神,批判了大写理性观、大写历史观、大写主体观、大写权力观。福柯在哲学剧场上扮演了越界者的角色,高举差异大旗,勇猛逾越近现代的同一哲学、表象哲学和绝对哲学的界限,开创了新的思想研究领域,展演了哲学就是对时代进行诊断这一哲学观。每一次越界,都是观念的突破,思想的推进。当然,福柯的越界思想也有其理论界限,他对萨特和梅洛-庞蒂思想的批判定性是不完全确切的。总之,在某种意义上可以说,鉴于笛卡尔直观“我思考着而存在”,马克思主张“我劳动着而存在”,福柯践行“我违犯着而存在”。
Thought: The Discourse of Limits and Their Transgression—Exploring Foucault’s View of Transgressing the Limits
Abstract: In view of the interdisciplinary nature of Foucault’s writings,this paper argues that Foucault’s thought is not only trans-limits,but also transgressive,transgressing the intrinsic limits of the disciplines and engaging in a different kind of thinking and inquiry,which knocks down,shakes up,and even destroys the traditional doctrines of thought.Foucault not only wants to break through the limits of Cartesian rationalism,but also to eradicate Kantian anthropological subjectivism and Husserl’s philosophy of transcendental subject,and not only to cut off the chain of linear causality of traditional historicism,but also to overstep the ideological minefield of the essentialist view of power.Foucault esteemed the critical spirit of Marx,Nietzsche,and Freud,and criticized the traditional philosophical view of Reason,of History,of Subject,and of Power.Although Foucault’s writings have different focuses at different times,they all focus on interpreting his lifelong conviction that “thought is the discourse about limits and their transgression”.Foucault played the role of a transgressor in the philosophical theater,holding high the flag of difference,bravely transgressing the limits of modern philosophy of Identity,of Representation and of the Absolute, creating a new field of research of thought,and presenting a new philosophical conception of philosophy as a diagnosis of the times.Every transgression is a breakthrough in conception and an advancement of thought.Of course,Foucault’s transgressions have their theoretical limits,and his critical characterization of Sartre’s and Merleau-Ponty’s thought is not entirely accurate.In short,in a sense,it can be said that whereas Descartes intuited “I exist thinking”,and Marx advocated “I exist laboring”,Foucault practiced “I exist transgressing”.