"Prufrock" between Acquaintance and Description: Bertrand Russell and T. S. Eliot

IF 0.1 3区文学 0 LITERARY THEORY & CRITICISM

PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE Pub Date : 2023-04-01 DOI:10.1353/phl.2023.a899684

Maya Kronfeld

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Abstract:This article recovers a submerged philosophical debate between Bertrand Russell's theory of descriptions and T. S. Eliot's "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." Russell's concern with immediate experience ("acquaintance") underscores a dilemma troubling literary modernism generally and modernist abstraction in particular. In "Prufrock," acquaintance with reality marks an epistemic failure whose social form is the "etherization" gripping the city and everything in it. The conversation between Russell's philosophy and Eliot's poetry is grounded in but exceeds the men's real-life acquaintance. Rather than influence, at stake is a circulation of ideas between philosophy and modernist poetry and the questions of knowledge raised by both.

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摘要:本文还原了罗素的描写理论与艾略特的《普鲁弗洛克情歌》之间一场被淹没的哲学争论。罗素对直接经验(“熟人”)的关注强调了一个困扰文学现代主义的两难困境，尤其是现代主义抽象主义。在《普鲁弗洛克》中，对现实的认识标志着一种认知上的失败，其社会形式是抓住城市和其中一切的“醚化”。罗素的哲学和艾略特的诗歌之间的对话根植于但超越了两人现实生活中的相识。利害攸关的不是影响，而是哲学和现代主义诗歌之间的思想流通，以及两者提出的知识问题。

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