论T.S.艾略特的文化本体生态观

On T. S. Eliot’s Ecology of Cultures

本文旨在从文化生态学的角度审视T．S．艾略特的文化观。研究发现，艾略特把文化比喻成生长的植物，把文化本体生态系统中各文化的结构关系描述为“文化星丛”，把各文化之间的关系研究命名为文化本体生态学，从而说明文化生态系统必须保持整体与多样性、稳定与发展的辩证统一。艾略特的文化本体生态论折射了他的文化一社会价值观：文化发展应遵循自然生态规律，文化生态系统的稳定是社会健康、和谐与发展的基础。

This paper aims to explore T. S. Eliot＇s cultural views from the angle of cultural ecology. The study reveals that Eliot compares a culture to a growing plant, uses ＂constellation of cultures＂ to describe the structural relationship of the ecosystem of cultures, and calls the study of the relationship between cultures ＂ecology of cultures＂, thus illustrating that the cultural ecosystem should keep a dialectical relationship between unity and diversity, stability and development. T. S. Eliot＇s ＂ecology of cultures＂ reflects his cultural-social values：cultural development should obey natural ecological laws;the health, harmony and development of a society are based on the stability of its cultural ecosystem.