Nowadays,there is a growing concern that the term tragedy has been abused to such an extent that it has lost its original significance.This interview with the Canadian literary critic Ato Quayson explores the meaning ...Nowadays,there is a growing concern that the term tragedy has been abused to such an extent that it has lost its original significance.This interview with the Canadian literary critic Ato Quayson explores the meaning of tragedy with a postcolonial sensibility,in the tragic tradition,and under contemporary context.In the interview,Quayson elaborates his recent research on postcolonial literature and theorizations of tragedy,underscoring that the parameters of what constitutes postcolonial tragedy can only be established through a link to the Western tragic tradition.For Quayson,what allows us to transcend the limitations of humanity is our alertness to what makes us human and our preparedness to defend at the cost of our own lives the universal human desires.This is also postcolonial tragedy's significance to contemporary existence,hence the urgency of tragedy today.展开更多
On naming two theories can be found in the philosophy of language research field,descriptive theory and historical casual theory.For the former,characteristics of social entities are fundamentally fore-grounded in the...On naming two theories can be found in the philosophy of language research field,descriptive theory and historical casual theory.For the former,characteristics of social entities are fundamentally fore-grounded in the process of naming,for the latter social context changes taken into account.Social contexts exert the same influence on the initial naming and the renaming of social entities over time with the same mechanism,conforming to certain social conventions and filtering the unwanted and presenting the value-added judgments.Both the naming and renaming of objects involve the judgments given to the entities in society.Hereby it is safe to say that under no case shall language use be value-free and that name variants mirror social contexts developments.展开更多
基金funded by the National Key Research Program of China(Grant No.11&ZD137)
文摘Nowadays,there is a growing concern that the term tragedy has been abused to such an extent that it has lost its original significance.This interview with the Canadian literary critic Ato Quayson explores the meaning of tragedy with a postcolonial sensibility,in the tragic tradition,and under contemporary context.In the interview,Quayson elaborates his recent research on postcolonial literature and theorizations of tragedy,underscoring that the parameters of what constitutes postcolonial tragedy can only be established through a link to the Western tragic tradition.For Quayson,what allows us to transcend the limitations of humanity is our alertness to what makes us human and our preparedness to defend at the cost of our own lives the universal human desires.This is also postcolonial tragedy's significance to contemporary existence,hence the urgency of tragedy today.
基金Science and Technology Innovation Fund of Nanjing Forestry University(X09-102-1)2011 Annual University Guidance Program of Philosophy and Social Science from Jiangsu Provincial Education Department(2011SJD740019)
文摘On naming two theories can be found in the philosophy of language research field,descriptive theory and historical casual theory.For the former,characteristics of social entities are fundamentally fore-grounded in the process of naming,for the latter social context changes taken into account.Social contexts exert the same influence on the initial naming and the renaming of social entities over time with the same mechanism,conforming to certain social conventions and filtering the unwanted and presenting the value-added judgments.Both the naming and renaming of objects involve the judgments given to the entities in society.Hereby it is safe to say that under no case shall language use be value-free and that name variants mirror social contexts developments.
