Abstract:

This article recovers a submerged philosophical debate between Bertrand Russell's theory of descriptions and T. S. Eliot's "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." Russell's concern with immediate experience ("acquaintance") underscores a dilemma troubling literary modernism generally and modernist abstraction in particular. In "Prufrock," acquaintance with reality marks an epistemic failure whose social form is the "etherization" gripping the city and everything in it. The conversation between Russell's philosophy and Eliot's poetry is grounded in but exceeds the men's real-life acquaintance. Rather than influence, at stake is a circulation of ideas between philosophy and modernist poetry and the questions of knowledge raised by both.

摘要：

本文恢复了伯特兰罗素的描述理论与 TS 艾略特的“J. 阿尔弗雷德普鲁弗洛克的情歌”之间的淹没哲学辩论。罗素对直接经验（“相识”）的关注强调了一个困扰文学现代主义和特别是现代主义抽象的困境。在《普鲁弗洛克》中，对现实的认识标志着认知上的失败，其社会形式是“以太化”，笼罩着城市及其中的一切。罗素的哲学与艾略特的诗歌之间的对话基于但又超越了两人现实生活中的相识。重要的不是影响，而是哲学和现代主义诗歌之间的思想循环以及两者提出的知识问题。