人文学科的有待与无待

The Humanities in Dependence

在当今全球化的语境中,如何实现人文学术的新发展已引起国际学术界的关注。通过对美国的大学和南非的大学中人文学科现状的比较分析,可以发现人文学科所具有的两种依赖性及其所代表的南北差异,人文学科迫切需要在大学及更广的社会体系内保持高度的紧迫感、批评性思考和道德价值;人文学术在今天特殊的有待状态下,仍然可以实现应有的创造。

In the current context of globalization how to realize new developments of the humanities has aroused concern in international intellectural circles.Through a comparative analysis of the state of the humanities in United States and South African universities,two kinds of dependency pertaining to the humanities and their differences presented in the global north and south can be found.The humanites are striving to retain urgency,critical perspective and moral value within university and larger social systems.In this way the humanities can still accomplish their deserved creations even in the present special condition of dependence.