现代主义之父T.E.休姆的思想体系

Consistency in the Thought of T. E. Hulme,Forerunner of Modernism

本文旨在构建现代主义之父T.E.休姆的思想体系。首先,本文阶段性地梳理和评价了休姆的全部批评作品,指出休姆的思想历程经历了以诗歌认识世界、反对人力无限观以及以道德伦理统规人性三个阶段,并由此证明,休姆的全部思想统一于以非完美人性为核心的认识论体系。本文在最后指出,这一体系决定了休姆以认识人性本质为目的、以道德价值为考量标准、以抽象与移情的艺术循环论为创作原理的文学艺术主张,同时一并指出,正是这些主张引领了现代主义的发展方向。

This paper intends to construct the consistency of T. E. Hulme＇s thought which anticipates modernism. First, the paper systematically examines, interprets and critiques the major critical works of Hulme, revealing the three stages of his intellectual development： the poetic approach to the epistemological knowledge of the world, the fight against the idea of the limitless of human power and the championing of the ethical regulation of human nature. Thus the paper is able to demonstrate the consistency of Hulme＇s critical ideas and to reveal his system of epistemology centered on the concerns of the limitations of human nature. Finally the essay points out that Hulme＇s epistemological conception determines his artistic ideal that takes knowledge of human nature as its major target, the ethical value as its major quantum of standard, and the circularity of abstraction and empathy as its major principle of creation. This artistic ideal reaffirms Hulme＇s role as a forerunner in the genealogy of modernism.