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題 名 | Useless Parables:Chuang-tzu's Lost Ground, Kafka's Broken Wall |
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作 者 | Stevenson,Frank W.; | 書刊名 | Tamkang Review |
卷 期 | 28:4 民87.夏 |
頁 次 | 頁41-101 |
分類號 | 121.33 |
關鍵詞 | Metaparabolic discourse; Divinatory discourse; Spillover saying; Becoming parable; Unground; Broken wall; Praxis of uselessness; |
語 文 | 英文(English) |
英文摘要 | Here I explore what I see as Kafka's and Chuang-tzu's common "neighborhood" of parabolic or metaparabolic thinking/discourse. I interpret Kafka's "Great Wall of China" and "Parable of Parables" and four stories (fables, parables) from the Chuang-tzu--the "untrodden ground," "disappearing ground," "useless oak tree" and "sacred turtle"--in the light of this metaparabolic dimension. This self-reflexive and indefinitely recursive discourse or textual strategy that "points beyond itself" by effectively cutting away its own ground or literal sense, thereby self-destructing, is closely tied, in both Kafka and Chuang-tzu, to the praxis of an "unlimited" thinking/saying, which again is the praxis of the "use of uselessness."That is, the uselessness of the most abstract or (logically) "limitless" thinking is both ironically contrasted and paradoxically identified with the most radically immanent sense of real-life suffering and the need to survive. Thus, in "becoming parable" as Kafka calls it, or in moving (flowing) over onto the "untrodden ground" in Chuang-tzu's terms, we simultaneously become irrelevant to the "problem" of human existence and already "solve" it--by no longer, in a sense, seeing the difference between what is parable and what is not. |
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