2006年春季班社會理論期末考題

(以下考題二選一，每題100%，每題書寫不可超過一頁半，請特別注意畫底線部分是評量回答重點)

1.‘It is not that what is past casts its light on what is present, or what is present its light on what is past; rather, image is that wherein what has been comes together in a flash with the now to form a constellation. In other words: image is dialectics at a standstill. For while the relation of the present to the past is purely temporal, the relation of what-has-been to the now is dialectical: not temporal in nature but figural (bildlich). Only dialectical images are genuinely historical—that is, not archaic—images. The image that is read—which is to say, the image in the now of its recognizability—bears to the highest degree the imprint of the perilous critical moment on what all readings is found. ’ (Benjamin, The Arcades Project, N3,1, p.463) 請翻譯以上文字，闡釋其意涵為何？並指出班雅明方法論與馬克思歷史唯物論的異同。

2. 請以班雅明的社會學理論的方法與相關概念，具體闡述自己在台北城日常都市行走的美學意涵。