于坚谈散文及朗读

YU Jian's View on Prose and Reading Aloud

20世纪进入中国对中国文化的影响是完全正面的,我的理论正试图回到散文上去,与读者是亲近的,插科打诨的把我的观点说出来,非逻辑的\无理之理,我不会再写那种纯粹的学院派的理论了,我觉得那种论文是对理的谋杀。中国那些伟大的论文,《老子》、《庄子》、《论语》和《文心雕龙》哪一篇是用现在这种制蜡的论文模式,语言写的?中国最伟大的论文莫不是散文式的,包括朱熹、王阳明。如果中国的20世纪的新文化影响的论文这个小传统不自我反省,想想被文革抛弃、毁灭的那个伟大传统,只是一味地模仿西方,是没有前途的。中国当代教育的严重危机就来自以那种论文模式为基础的考试制度。而西方最近的思想家例如福科、罗兰.巴特、德里达等无不试图把他们的论文写得非理性,非逻辑,散文化。

My influence on Chinese culture in the 20^th century is positive. I am trying to return to prose and want to be reader-friendly and talk at will. I have stopped writing theories in a purely academic style because I believe that style kills rationality. The great masterpieces of the past in China are never like the present stifling model of essay writing. The greatest Chinese essays are all written in prose, including those by Zhu Xi and Wang Yangming. If the essay-writing under the influence of the new culture of the 20^th-century China always imitates the West model and has totally forgotten the great tradition destroyed by the ＂Cultural Revolution＂, there will be no hope for it. The serious crisis of modern Chinese education originates from the examination system based on that essay-writing model. The great Western thinkers in modern times like Foucault, Roland Barthes and Derrida all try to write their essays in a seemingly irrational, illogical and prose style.