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引用次数: 10
摘要
恢复和保存在某些圈子里被指定为“古典”的古代的愿望根植于这样一种信念,即对古代的知识是有益的。但是,意识到古希腊罗马时代的“杀知性”行为是否(或者应该)改变了这种欲望的本质?根据后殖民理论家Boaventura de Sousa Santos提出的知识灭绝(epistemicide)的定义,本文认为,罗马共和国和帝国在整个古地中海地区造成了知识多样性的惊人丧失,从大规模奴役到生态剧变,这可以追溯到多个载体。最后,它呼吁人们接受古罗马的认识论屠杀,并接受书写历史所需的认识论和伦理的重新校准。
The desire to recover and preserve the antiquity that in some circles is designated as “classical” is rooted in the conviction that knowledge of that antiquity is a good. But does (or should) awareness of the epistemicides that define Greco-Roman antiquity modify the texture of that desire? Relying on the definition of epistemicide proposed by the postcolonial theorist Boaventura de Sousa Santos, this article argues that the Roman Republic and Empire engineered a staggering loss of epistemic diversity throughout the ancient Mediterranean, traceable along multiple vectors — from mass enslavement to ecological upheaval. It concludes with a summons to come to terms with the scope of ancient Rome’s epistemicide, and to embrace the epistemological and ethical recalibration needed to write its history.