身体、符号及其能动性

借助符号学的推动，“身体”以其社会建构的身体观与诸多领域相关涉而成为现代哲学研究的关键词，反之，“符号”也因其对身体的建构而后来居上，成为社会批判、权力诊断、文化分析的基本要素。然而，“身体”在借“符号”而显的同时又构成了“隐”的困境，即符号建构中的身体是一个沉默的、无声息的身体；在符号学的话语实践上，这一困境表现为话语决定论中的“能动性难题”。女性主义者巴特勒以其“操演”理论试图在话语符号系统内部解决福柯、拉康等社会建构论者中所包含的能动性难题，但其最终所提供的策略--“作为被排除之物的身体的破坏性回归”--又构成了其身体建构论立场的反对项，这一悖谬或许促使我们应在一个新的语境中重新思考身体的肉体性。

Body,Symbol,and Problem of Agency

By virtue of the development of semiotics,body is getting to take an important role in contemporary philosophy study for the notion of socially constructed body,and simultaneously,symbol has become the basic element of cultural analysis for its contribution to the construction of body.While in an apparent position,body also falls into a dilemma of hidden position,that is,body is quiet in symbolic construction.In the discourse practice of semiotics,this dilemma is shown in the form of problem of agency in discourse determinism.Butler,with his perfomativity theory,tries to resolve the difficulty,but he eventually falls into the conflict with the notion of flesh which oversteps his constructed body premise.Maybe it makes us to re-think the flesh of body in a new context or in a non-western circumstance.