This article examines ‘primary rejection’ on the basis of a concrete historical example. This ‘primary rejection’ was that of a Bavarian soldier who in 1839 refused to go on bended knee when taking part in a Corpus Christi procession. Ludwig I had decreed that Protestant soldiers should, like their Catholic counterparts, kneel during Catholic services. In this order to kneel, political, religious, military and aesthetic imperatives are woven together in complex ways. Having been placed in its historical context, the soldier's refusal is used as a ‘theoretical incident’ to investigate the practice of bending the knee. Drawing on Louis Althusser, Blaise Pascal, Siegfried Kracauer, Judith Butler, Sigmund Freud and Ludwig Wittgenstein, an attempt is made to construct a theory of ‘the bended knee’. The ‘primary rejection’ of refusing to kneel can then be seen not as an intuitive refusal to comply with a single demand, but as physical resistance to an entire cluster of imperatives, some of which even contradict each other.

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德韦尔格特（Kerefall）兄弟（EINE'S BUCHBINDERS）：埃因（Eine）初次拒绝（Primeary Rejection），31日上午。1839年1月，在英格斯塔德（MING 1ING）

本文以一个具体的历史例子为基础，研究了“主要拒绝”。这种“主要拒绝”是一名巴伐利亚士兵，他在1839年参加科珀斯克里斯蒂游行时拒绝屈膝。路德维希一世已下令，新教徒士兵应像天主教徒一样在天主教礼拜中跪下。为了下跪，将政治，宗教，军事和美学的要务以复杂的方式编织在一起。士兵的拒绝被置于其历史背景下，被用作调查膝盖弯曲习性的“理论事件”。借鉴路易斯·阿尔都塞（Louis Althusser），布莱斯·帕斯卡（Blaise Pascal），齐格弗里德·克拉考尔（Siegfried Kracauer），朱迪思·巴特勒（Judith Butler），西格蒙德·弗洛伊德（Sigmund Freud）和路德维希·维特根斯坦（Ludwig Wittgenstein）的尝试，尝试构建“弯曲膝盖”的理论。