逻各斯中心主义与灵性传统

Logocentrism and Scriptural Tradition

杰弗里(David L. Jeffrey) ； 李毅

《基督教文化學刊》 4期 (2000/12) Pp. 85-106

並列摘要

The essay responds from a Christian perspective to the distortion of Christian literary theory made by deconstructionist critics, such as Harold Bloom and Jacques Derrida. For Bloom and his colleagues, theory of poetry can only be animated by the extremes in conflict. They regard Christian literary theory as ＂logocentrism,＂ and their own theory as the most refined form of ＂a thoroughgoing linguistic nihilism.＂ This postulated opposition of nihilism and logocentrism is upheld as a fact by deconstructionist critics. The author of this essay responds to this theory by making the following viewpoints: first, what centers Christian discourse is not either extreme view of language, but a profoundly mediated theory of the ＂meaning of persons＂ to which language is functionally subordinate, merely tropic, merely indicative. Christian theory may be Logos-centered, but it is not logocentrism. Second, deconstruction misrepresents Christian literary theory and its traditional foregrounding of the ethical in questions of interpretation and literary theory. The literary theory in the mainstream of Western scriptural tradition has always reiterated the basic premises: what valorizes literary and linguistic heurism is an ultimate unity of truth; what conditions recovery and use of any part of ＂truth＂ is not merely the frailty of words but the primacy in inquiry of intention, of the human will. Literary theory in the scriptural tradition has usually tried to face the problem squarely. Deconstructionist critics have severely distorted Christian literary theory when they tend to evade this major aspect of it in their hypothetical opposition of nihilism and logocentrism.