本杰明·富兰克林的民族文化建构

Benjamin Franklin and the Construction of National Culture

随着美国生产发展与经济初步繁荣带来的社会思想环境相对宽松,各种冲击新教神学观念的思想意识兴起,富兰克林清楚地观察到时代所面临的宗教理想和物质现实、个人与上帝、个人与社会矛盾冲突等现实问题。他于是以《穷理查年鉴》为宣传阵地,以《自传》为榜样力量,为新兴的民族文化身份的确立作了实践检验、理论说明和舆论准备,他的思想对现当代美国文化意识的形成产生了持续影响。

With the development of production and the early prosperity of American economy,the social and ideological atmosphere is relatively free and all kinds of ideological awareness which attacks the Protestant theology emerge.Franklin,clearly recognized the contradictions between religious ideal and physical reality,individual and God,individual and society of that age, with his Poor Richard's Almanac as propaganda position and his Autobiography as a fine example,serves for the newly-emerging national culture its practical test,theoretical description and public opinion preparation,and exerts continuous influence on the formation of modern and contemporary American cultural awareness.