科学理性、道德冷漠与现代性——鲍曼对现代性两副面孔的反思

Scientific ration,Holocaust and Modernity:on the Two Sides of Modernity by Bauman

齐格蒙.鲍曼通过对大屠杀的研究对现代性进行了深刻的反思。鲍曼认为,德国纳粹针对犹太人的大屠杀不仅仅是犹太人历史上的一个悲惨事件,也并非德意志民族的一次反常行为,而是现代性本身的固有可能。科学的理性计算精神、技术的道德中立地位、社会管理的工程化趋势,正是这些现代化的本质要素,使得像大屠杀这样灭绝人性的惨剧成为设计者、执行者和受害者密切合作的集体行动。从鲍曼对当代的历史和社会结构极为深刻的分析中,我们可以感受到后现代理论对政治和历史研究的巨大的冲击力。

Bauman rethought the modernity deeply through the analysis on the Holocaust. He thought that the Holocaust was not only a tragedy for Jew but also the consequence of the modernity. The Holocaust was a collective action which the designer,practician and victim cooperated by the elements of the modernity. The Holocaust was a rare but significant test of hidden possibilities of modern society. Bauman reconstructed the idea of modernity which is a course of ambivalent and interrelations between deconstruction and construction in refuting etiological myth on the Western civilization.