现代性的对话维度与独白维度——对布伯现代性理论的阐释

The Dimensions of Dialogue And Monologue in Modernity

布伯引进一种以主体间性理论为支撑的现代性理论,区分现代性的“我—它”关系维度与“我—你”关系维度、现代性的行动层级与观念层级、现代性的对话维度与独白维度。以此反观西方现代性的问题在于:第一,“我—它”关系维度的过度发展,遮蔽了“我—你”对话关系的维度;第二,现代性的独白维度占据上风,遮蔽了现代性的对话维度的可能性发展;第三,人们只在观念层级上讨论现代性,忽视了现代性的行动层级。

Martin Buber has introduced a theory of modernity on the basis of the conception of inter-subjectivity to distinguish the dimensions of I-It relationship and I-Thou relationship, the practical level and the conceptual level, and dialogue and monologue in the field of modernity. According to this theory, Buber points out three problems of western modernity. First, the excess development of I-It relationship obscures the development of I-Thou relationship. Secondly, the excess development of monologue dimension obscures the possible development of dialogue dimension in modernity. Thirdly, people only explore the modernity on the level of conception, not the level of action.