傾聽自然：評〈未聞之痛與對話倫理〉

Listening to Nature: A Commentary on“Unheardalgia and Dialogethics”

本文評論Giovanni Scarafile教授的“Unheardalgia and dialogethics: Toward a Phenomenology of Failed Listening and an Ethics of Situated Dialogue”一文，從該文對「聽」與「聽見」的現象學分析出發，將自我與他者的對話延伸入非人之域，討索聆聽自然之契機。本文先借助於Scarafile所提出諸多極富啟發的概念，討論自然如何遭受存有論上的傷害、而人類又如何未能聽見自然之呼聲。本文進而引入Levinas的語言哲學，尤其是「言說」與「所說」這組概念，藉此論及人與自然間的非對稱關係，由此將Scarafile的對話倫理落實在生態危機的處境中。

This brief article reviews on Professor Giovanni Scarafile’s“Unheardalgia and Dialogethics: Toward a Phenomenology of Failed Listening and an Ethics of Situated Dialogue.”Starting with Scarafile’s phenomenological analysis of hearing and listening, I extend the dialogue between the self and the other into the non-human realm in order to explore the opportunities of“listening to nature.”Building on Scarafile’s insightful concepts, I first discuss how nature suffers ontological wounds and how human beings fail to listen to nature’s voice. Then I introduce Levinas’s philosophy of language, especially the concepts of“the saying”and“the said,”in order to reflect on the asymmetrical relationship between human and nature. In this way, I seeks to suggest a practice of Scarafile’s dialogethics within the context of ecological crisis.