ABSTRACT

This article argues that faith is a crucial concept for understanding the relationship between reason and affect. By allowing people to learn from religious faith for secular ends, it can help generate political action for emancipatory change. Antonio Gramsci's underexplored secular-political and materialist conception of faith provides an important contribution to such a project. By speaking to common sense and tradition, faith avoids imposing a wholly external set of normative and political principles, instead taking people as they are as the starting point for generating emancipatory change. It also allows us to imagine the construction of alternative institutions (the Church provides an interesting model for challenging existing state authority). Theorists should therefore pay attention not just to the rationalist logic of discursive justification but also to the complex processes of social, collectively held emotions and how these influence political action as forms of affect. The article provides a detailed reconstruction of Gramsci's conception of faith and analyzes the instruments it provides for bridging the gap between reason and affect.

摘要

本文认为，信仰是理解理性与情感关系的关键概念。通过允许人们为世俗目的学习宗教信仰，它可以帮助产生政治行动以实现解放性变革。安东尼奥·葛兰西未充分探索的世俗政治和唯物主义信仰概念为这样一个项目做出了重要贡献。通过与常识和传统对话，信仰避免强加一套完全外在的规范和政治原则，而是以人的本相作为产生解放性变革的起点。它还允许我们想象替代机构的构建（教会提供了一个有趣的模型来挑战现有的国家权威）。因此，理论家不仅应该关注话语辩护的理性主义逻辑，还应该关注社会、集体情绪的复杂过程，以及这些情绪如何影响作为情感形式的政治行动。这篇文章详细重建了葛兰西的信仰概念，并分析了它为弥合理性与情感之间的鸿沟所提供的工具。