五四文学精神资源新论

The Intellectual Resources of May Fourth Literature: A New Insight

人文主义是五四文学的旗帜与象征,也是中国现代作家的梦想和追求。因为它不仅代表着与传统价值观完全不同的现代性意义,也标志着中国文学与世界文学接轨的现实可能性。然而,人文主义原本是西方文化的历史传统,它究竟通过什么渠道和方式传入中国并产生影响,新文学作家又是怎样对其加以理解和运用的?这一关键问题,至今没有引起学界足够的重视。本文对五四文学的精神资源进行反思,认为五四文学是本土意识深度介入西方现实主义文学思潮等的结果。

Humanism is the banner and symbol of May Fourth literature, and the dream and pursuit of modern Chinese writers, not only because it represents a modernity that is completely different from the Chinese traditional values, but because it provides an opportunity for Chinese literature to join world literature. Then, by what channel and in what manner did humanism as a Western cultural tradition find its way into China and have an influence there? And how did the writers of the New Literature in China understand and use this Western tradition? Essential as they are, these questions have drawn little attention from researchers. This paper reflects anew on the intellectual resources of May Fourth literature and concludes that May Fourth literature was a product of local ideas that found a profound expression in Western realism.