现场|展开比较女性主义的另一场对话

Quaking before the unfathomable majesty of thunderstorms, mountains and the boundless ocean, Immanuel Kant described how the formidable experience of the destructive and terrifying power of the sublime natural world exposes our ‘physical helplessness as beings of nature’. Yet, man emerges triumphant in the final moment of sublime transcendence; nature is ‘small’ and inferior compared with the ‘infinity’ of reason and the human mind. In The Ideology of the Aesthetic (1990), the Marxist critic Terry Eagleton described the sublime as a ‘phallic swelling arising from our confrontation of danger […] in the pleasurable knowledge that we cannot actually be harmed’. In our contemporary world, humankind has pushed global ecologies to the brink of collapse, provoking environmental catastrophes of our own making. This immense natural power no longer inspires poetic gratification; today, the danger is all too real. – 伊曼纽尔·康德在深不可测的雷暴、高山和无边海洋的威严面前颤抖着，他描述了崇高自然世界的毁灭性和可怕力量的可怕经历如何暴露出我们作为自然存在的“身体上的无助”。然而，在崇高超越的最后时刻，人类获得了胜利；与理性和人类心灵的“无限”相比，自然是“小”和“低等”的。在《美学思想》（1990年）中，马克思主义批评家特里·伊格尔顿将这种崇高描述为“我们在愉悦的知识中面对危险时产生的阳具膨胀，我们实际上不能受到伤害”。在当今世界，人类已经把全球生态推向崩溃的边缘，引发了我们自己造成的环境灾难。这种巨大的自然力量不再能激发诗意的满足感；今天，危险是非常真实的。