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.