ABSTRACT Andrew Cole’s The Birth of Theory points to Plotinus’s dialectics of identity and difference as the foundation of Hegelianism and the source of modern critical theory. Of crucial importance is not only theory as a form of medievalism but also theory as a dialectics of figure and concept: theory is “thinking other.” This article examines Cole’s thesis alongside Eve Sedgwick’s diagnosis of the hermeneutics of suspicion and paranoid reading; both critics seek to undo New Historicism’s hold on literary studies within the historical rise of neoliberalism. Crucially, Cole’s deployment of feeling in dialectics — of thinking as also “feeling other” — is rooted in Sedgwickian and Deleuzian affect theories. Cole’s forceful critique of post-Deleuzianism, especially its rejection of dialectics, may be addressed through Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing’s study of precarity in the Anthropocene, the age of post-sustainability. Precarity, as an unpredictable encounter, is precisely the figural leap required in dialectical interpretation. Theory, informed by precarity, is the dialectical imagination as attentive doing that leads to dialectical surprises and utopian world-making.

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Figure可危的人物，严谨的风格

摘要安德鲁·科尔（Andrew Cole）的《理论的诞生》指出，普洛蒂努斯的认同与差异辩证法是黑格尔主义的基础和现代批判理论的源头。至关重要的不仅是作为中世纪形式的理论，而且是作为人物和概念的辩证法的理论：理论在“思考他人”。本文结合前夕塞奇威克（Eve Sedgwick）对怀疑和偏执阅读诠释学的诊断，研究了科尔的论点。两位评论家都试图在新自由主义的历史兴起之际撤消新历史主义对文学研究的控制。至关重要的是，科尔在辩证法中的感觉调配（即思维也“感觉他人”）植根于塞奇威克主义和德鲁兹主义的情感理论。科尔对后德鲁兹主义的有力批判，尤其是对辩证法的拒绝，可以通过安娜·洛文豪普特·青（Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing）对人类世的前不稳定（后可持续时代）的研究来解决。car不安是不可预测的遭遇，正是辩证法诠释所需要的象征性飞跃。出于不稳定性，理论是辩证性想象力，因为它是一种细心的行为，会导致辩证性惊奇和乌托邦式的世界创造。