“多元文化”的修辭、政治和理論

Multiculturalism: Rhetoric, Politics and Conceptualization

趙剛(Kang Chao)

《台灣社會研究季刊》 62期 (2006/06) Pp. 147-189

https://doi.org/10.29816/TARQSS.200606.0005

摘要

目前流行在台灣的這個多元文化還大致是一個意識形態修辭，在形式地提倡多樣性的同時，壓縮社會平等、包容性的公民身份以及兩岸和平的進步論述空間，自我矛盾地成為統合內部對抗他者的一元文化動員話語，所以必須要嚴厲批評。作為一個理論概念，它沒有誠實地自省它的很多問題，包括民族國家與帝國的典範問題、資本主義的文化蒸發問題與特殊性的激進化問題。在時間政治、空間政治以及主體能力這三方面都重新構思過的多元文化，才是值得我們支持的激進的多元文化。

關鍵字

多元文化 ； 差異 ； 平等 ； 修辭 ； 民族國家多元文化論 ； 全球多元文化論 ； 當代資本主義

並列摘要

”Multiculturalism” in contemporary Taiwan is essentially a rhetoric celebrating formal diversity and paradoxically an ideological agenda for nation-building. Vital issues such as social equality, inclusive citizenship and radical individuality are silenced amidst the cacophony of multiculturalism. Under the cover of rhetorical reasonableness, multiculturalism in Taiwan is secretly against the cultural diversity as such by taking the latter as means to the final end of national unity. Multiculturalism is paradoxically monoculturalism. As a theoretical formation, multiculturalism is surprisingly numb in reflecting upon its relation to the idea of empire, the neo-liberal globalization and an idea of radical particularity. The paper attempts to offer an immanent critique to the idea of multiculturalism by pointing out its aporia and potentiality, and argues that only through a radical rethinking of three meta-dimensions of multiculturalism, i.e., time, space and subjectivity, can the idea of multiculturalism be rescued from its rhetorical excess.

並列關鍵字

multiculture ； difference ； equality ； rbetoric ； nation-state multiculturalism ； global multiculturalism ； contemporary capitalism

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