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1、AfterBlanchot?HERMANRAPAPORTAfterBlanchot:Literature,Criticism,Philosophy,editedbyLeslieHill,BrianNelsonandDimitrisVardoulakis(Newark:UniversityofDelawarePress,2005),277pp.BeforediscussingwhatitcouldmeantobespeakingculturallyofBlanchottoday,itisimportant
2、torecognizethatchangeshavebeenoccurringinthehumanitiesandthatthesenecessarilyrecontextualizeandinflectthesortofprojectthatmakesupavolumelikeAfterBlanchot.Inparticular,I’mspeakingofthemarkedrecuperationofaliberal-humanisthistoricalmoment,onethatnowcomesbot
3、hbeforeandafterthepoliticsof‘counter-culture’.Centraltotheregressiontothe1950shasbeentherehabilitationofHannahArendt,arehabilitationthatspeakstoliberal-humanistconcernsregardingrights,responsibilityandtheuniversalityofthehumancondition.1ManyofArendt’swri
4、tingsinthepost-1945periodhaveresonatedinthewritingsofMarthaNussbaumandSeylaBenhabib,whobothemergedasleadingfiguresinthe1990s.Givensuchahistoricalcorrespondence,itisnotsurprisingthatbothNussbaumandBenhabibwouldfindcausetonegatethestructuralistassumptionthat
5、oneshouldn’tpresumeanapriorisocialsubject(intheirterms,ahumanbeing)ascentraltocultural,socialandpoliticalanalysis.Nussbaum’sreturntoAristotelianethicsandBenhabib’sconcernwithKantandhumanrightsbothrequiredamoralorderpredicatedonuniversalsthathavetodowitht
6、hehuman.2Infact,thisturntoliberalhumanismiswidespread.ItcanbeseenquiteconspicuouslyinrecentworkssuchasJudithButler’sGivinganAccountofOneself,whichsimilarlypresupposesahumanistconceptofselfandthenormsthatgiveriseto‘anthropocentricdispositions’.3Herchapter
7、sonresponsibilityandonbeing‘againstethicalviolence’arehighlyreminiscentofArendt’smajorthemes.EvenErnestoLaclau’swritingsonhegemony,contingencyanduniversalityhavealiberal-humanistringtotheminrecentyears,giventhathehasbeenexploringhegemonymoreandmoreinterm
8、sofwhatArendtcalled‘socialization’,thewitheringawayoftheindividualasaprivateentitycutofffrompublicscrutinyandmanagement.Alreadyin1996,LaclauParagraph32:2(2009)255–264DOI:10.3366/E0264833409000583256Paragraphwrote:‘Letustak
