文学批评与知识分子的社会使命

Literary Criticism and the Intellectual's Social Mission

爱德华.W.萨义德在他的遗著《人文主义与民主批评》一书中力图对二战以来美国人文主义批评实践进行反思。通过详尽审视自由人文主义和后结构主义批评的种种局限,萨义德主张文学批评回归一种历史主义的研究方法,即艾里克.奥尔巴赫和列奥.斯皮策所倡导的历史语文学阐释学。这部篇幅不长的演讲与论文合集体现了作者终生信奉的理念:人文主义文学批评应当与社会关怀相结合。

In his posthumous work, Humanism and Democratic Criticism, Edward W. Said endeavors to rethink American humanist critical practice since the Second World War. Through scrutinizing the limitations of both liberal humanism and poststructualist interventions, Edward.W.Said argues for a return to a historicist approach to literature: the philological hermeneutics championed by Eric Auerbach and Leo Spitzer. This short collection of speeches and essays exhibits the author's consistent belief throughout his intellectual career that literary studies should incorporate social commitments into humanist critical practice.