建设性后现代的启蒙——读王治河樊美筠的《第二次启蒙》

Enlightenment of Constructive Postmodernism:A Review on Second Enlightenment

《第二次启蒙》旨在以建设性后现代主义的视角来审视中国在现代化进程中遇到的各种社会问题。自第一次启蒙运动以降,现代工具理性的过度发展割裂了人与自然、人与社会以及人与传统的多重联系。由现代性片面发展而引发的生态危机、道德危机和精神危机在中国社会已显露端倪。基于中国的具体国情,作者从万物内在关联的思想出发,提出有机地整合建设性后现代主义与中国的传统智慧来探寻可能的应对之道,以实现超越现代性局限的第二次启蒙。

From the perspective of constructive postmodernism,the public issues in different social sectors emerging from China＇s modernization were investigated in Second Enlightenment.Since the Age of Enlightenment,the interrelations between human kind and nature,society,and tradition have been pried apart by the overdevelopment of instrumental reason.A series of public crises resulted from the limitation of modernity,such as environmental crisis,moral crisis,and mental crisis have become an issue of great concern in contemporary China.Based on the interrelations among all beings,the authors of the book proposed an integration of constructive postmodernism and Chinese wisdoms to cope with the aforementioned issues,which suggests the implication of the book＇s title,i.e.transcending the limits of the Enlightenment so as to reach a new stage.