启蒙的缺失与重建——对当代中国文化发展的思考

Lack and Reconstruction of Enlightenment——Thinking on the Development of the Contemporary Chinese Culture

从马克思的"社会学意义上的形态学时间"即"三大社会形态"理论的时间观念来考察当代中国社会,我们发现它与启蒙时期的欧洲社会在文化心态上应该是"同时代的"。众所周知,启蒙运动发生在18世纪的欧洲,因而启蒙精神也是当代中国文化的重要课题。然而,从近代中国以降,启蒙精神一直处于边缘的,甚至缺失的状态。在某种意义上,"文革"就是启蒙缺失的一个结果。在当代中国文化的发展中重建启蒙精神,并不意味着重走欧洲人的老路,我们追求的是一种经过反思和修正的启蒙精神。

In view of Maxi’s morphological concept of time in sociology and the concept of time in the three major theories of social forms,we find the contemporary Chinese society simultanenous with its European counterparts in the Enlightment era in cultural mentality.It is well known that the Enlightenment happened in Europe of the 18 century,so the spirit of enlightenment is also the subject of the contemporary Chinese culture However,the spirit of enlightenment has kept on in the state of edge and even lack since the modern China.＂the Great Cultural Revolution＂ is,in fact,a result of the lack of enlightenment. Therefore,the reconstruction of the spirit of enlightenment in the development of the contemporary Chinese culture does not mean to go along European old way again,we are going to seek such a spirit of enlightenment which has been reflected and revised.