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本文以汉娜-阿伦特(Hannah Arendt)对公共幸福的讨论为出发点,将其纳入她对政治、民主和革命的思考之中。文章借鉴了阿伦特关于 "追求幸福 "这一表述在历史上如何从对幸福的公共理解转变为日益私有化的理解的讨论。文章引用了阿伦特关于公共幸福的论述,以重新唤起她的激进民主批判,即代议政治如何缩小了政治行动和参与的范围;以及新自由主义时代的幸福概念如何只能从经济学和主观主义的角度来解释。此外,文章转而研究当代政治思想的最新作品,即阿德里安娜-卡瓦列罗和朱迪斯-巴特勒的作品,是如何扩展和改变阿伦特关于公共幸福的论述的利害关系的。一方面,卡瓦列罗的 "澎湃民主"(surging democracy)概念被认为是对激进政治的一种阐述,它通过将阿伦特对公共幸福的关注置于当代政治斗争和社会运动的背景下,使其得以延续。另一方面,巴特勒质疑阿伦特对政治的讨论忽视了不稳定性;然而,本文认为巴特勒关于集会的研究通过强调在失落和悲伤经历中抵抗、激进民主甚至公共幸福的可能性,扩展了阿伦特的研究。虽然从表面上看,幸福与不稳定似乎是相互对立的,但本文指出,当代的政治实践,如 "Ni Una Menos "的政治实践,正在通过交织从欢乐到悲伤的各种情感,批判性地重新唤起公众的幸福感。
Reanimating Public Happiness: Reading Cavarero and Butler beyond Arendt
This article takes as its point of departure Hannah Arendt’s discussion of public happiness, contextualising it within her thoughts on politics, democracy and revolution. It draws on Arendt’s discussion of how the expression “pursuit of happiness” has historically shifted from a public understanding of happiness into an increasingly privatised one. The article engages with Arendt’s account of public happiness in order to reanimate her radical democratic critique of how representative politics reduces the scope of political action and participation; and how the notion of happiness in a neoliberal era can only be interpreted in economistic and subjectivist terms. Furthermore, the article turns to examine how recent works in contemporary political thought, namely, those by Adriana Cavarero and Judith Butler, extend and transform the stakes of Arendt’s account of public happiness. On one hand, Cavarero’s notion of surging democracy is considered as an account of radical politics that keeps alive the Arendtian concern with public happiness by contextualising it within contemporary political struggles and social movements. On the other hand, Butler problematises Arendt’s discussion of politics for its neglect of precarity; however, this article argues that Butler’s work on assembly extends Arendt’s by highlighting possibilities of resistance, radical democracy and even public happiness amid experiences of loss and grief. Although prima facie it might appear that happiness and precarity are opposed to each other, this article points towards contemporary political practices, such as those of Ni Una Menos, that are critically reanimating public happiness through the intertwining of affective registers that range from joy to grief.