理性的现代性及其在文学理论中的命运

Modernity of Reason and Its Fate in Literary Theory

我国当代文艺学关于理性在文学中的功能的争论呈现出种种乖谬,其原因除了学理建设不完善外,世界范围内的理性概念通过现代性运动所发生的转折是更根本的原因。合理性取代宏大理性成为第一原理,导致了文学对理性的抵制,同时又引起了反理性悖论。理性在文学理论中的尴尬命运,是一件与现代性的基点相联系的事情,摆脱此种困境有赖于我们从根子上检讨现代性冲动的基础。

In contemporary Chinese theory of literature, a variety of fallacy has appeared in the controversy of the function of reason in literature. This is because that, aside from the incompleteness of theoretical construction, it is a more essential reason that the conception of reason in worldwide scope has taken a turn through the modernist movement. Being reasonable has substituted for the grand reason and becomes the first principle, which results in a literary resistance to reason and, at the same time, caused an irrational paradox. The reason feels a fatal dilemma in literary theory, and this is a matter of connection to the modernist base. In order to get rid of this dilemma, it is important to examine from the root the basis of modern impetus.