文艺人学论

On the Establishment of the Discipline Homonology in Literature and Art

文艺人学是在文艺学和人学两个学科的知识背景下生成的文艺研究学科,是“文艺学和人学的融合”。文艺人学有着独特的学科定位以及特殊的研究对象、范畴和研究方法。文艺人学的构设既有理论的合理性,也有逻辑的合法性;它的生成既是中国当代文艺实践的需要,也是文艺学建设的内在要求以及文艺学自身逻辑运动的必然结果。文艺人学的发展一方面需依托文艺学研究的现代成果,另一方面又需借助人学的理论视界,这决定了其在学科生成和理论生长中的交叉性和综合性品质。

Homonology （or human studies） is the starting point and prerequisite for all researches in social sciences. Any breakthrough in solving a great number of major theoretical problems in the discipline of literature and art is subject to the settlement of problems on people. Therefore, it is necessary to establish a new discipline-homonology in literature and art-so as to promote the further development of study on literature and art. Firstly, from a disciplinary point of view, homonology in literature and art is defined by the combination of homonology and literature and art, which is different from either homonology or literature and art. It focuses on the relationships between literature and art and human beings, and between human implications and human interests in the perspective of human studies. Besides, it features unique objects for research： history of thought in literature and art, which is not only of top priority but also theoretical sources and a growth point for its development; and research category and conceptual system, which involve both the macroscopic study of relationships between literary and artistic activities and people, and of people in literary and artistic activities and people＇ s literary and artistic activities, and the microscopic discrimination, in terms of theoretical category, between human nature and literary and artistic nature, human nature in literature and art, literary and artistic individuality., humanity and literature and art, people＇ s life and literature and art, human development and literature and art, human historicity and literature and art, human confirmation and literature and art, etc. In-depth researches in these aspects would bring about the establishment and development of homonology in literature and art. Secondly, homonology in literature and art has its own specific approaches. The object of its research is the relationship between literature and art and human beings, whose complexity in terms of the human nature and human law of thinking determines the adoption of a dialectical materialist approach to analyze and solve problems and of a systematic and integrated approach as well as of top-down and bottom-up approaches. Thirdly, the establishment of the said discipline is both theoretically reasonable and logically inevitable. It meets the challenge of literary and artistic practice in contemporary China and the internal demand of literature and art as a discipline. A deeper understanding of literature and art, conditioned by a deeper understanding of human beings, must go before any possible further promotion of literature and art. It is just on the basis of human beings that homonology in literature and art can be established in its true sense.