【让-吕克·马里翁】塞尚的精确度

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1、twoCézanne’sCertitudejean-lucmarionTranslatedbyDeborahS.Reisinger,withNathanPhillipsMygrandprinciple,mycertitude,mydiscovery.—Cézanne,ConversationsavecCézanne1Shouldn’tweagreetorefrainfromspeakingaboutCézannewhohimselfwarnedthat“talkingaboutartisalmostuseless”

2、?2Thecaveat“almost”willauthorizeourhopesofjustifyinganewattemptto“converse”aboutCé-zanne.Butthereismore:inordertohaveeventhemostbanallyaccuratevisionofCézanne’spainting,wewouldhavetoseeitasCézannehimselfin-tendedforustoseeit,thatistosay,toseeitashepaintedit.No

3、wasimplevisionofthispaintingalreadyrequiresthatwenotseeitasthosewhodidnotpaintlikeCézannesawit(orratherdidnotseeit).Andtherefore,since,duringhislifetime,onlyCézannepaintedlikeCézanne,thatweseeinthewayCézanneexplainedhowhehimselfsawwhathepainted,inordertosuccee

4、d,alwayswithdifficulty,inmakingitseen.Theachievementofthisvisionisnotself-evident,becauseCézannewrotestrangely,asstrangelyashepainted,butespeciallybecausehelackedtheconceptswithwhichtothinkit.Notthathethoughtinaconfused,approximate,ornaïvefashion:rather,whathe

5、attemptedtosayandtomakeseencouldnotbeauthorizedbyanyevidencealreadyacquirednorbyanypreviouslyestablishedaestheticdoctrine,sothathehadtothinkwithhisforcealoneandinassolitaryafashionashealsopainted.Thisstruggletopaintwasredoubledbyancézanne’scertitudeequivalen

6、tstruggletospeak—soastothinktheeffortofpainting.WewillnotattempttospeakofthisorthatoneofCézanne’spaintings(whichoth-ershavedonewithgreatercompetence),buttoreconstitutethethoughtCézannehadconceivedoftheirvisibility,oftheirmodeofpresence,andoftheirphenomenologic

7、alstatus.ILetusbeginwithoneofCézanne’smostfamousassertions:“LetmerepeatwhatItoldyouwhenyouwerehere:Rendernaturewiththecylinder,thesphere,andthecone,arrangedinperspective”(Conversations,27;CC,29).Althoughitisoftencited,themeaningofthisformulaisnotreadilyappar-e

8、nt,andinfact,itposesaconsiderablechallenge.Onedoesnotneedgreattraininginphilosophicalhistoryorinthesciencestohearanecho,almostadirectquotationfromDescartes’sandGalileo’sthesesconce