世界主义及其于当代中国的意义

Cosmopolitanism and Its Significance to Contemporary China

在当今的国际学术界,"世界主义"再度浮出历史的地表,成了又一个热门话题:它频繁地出现在政治哲学家和社会学家们的著述中,同时也不断地被专事文化研究和文学研究的学者们当作一种分析文化现象或文学作品的理论视角。世界主义的出现和重新建构为全球化的现象提供了理论依据,同时也使之与历史上曾出现过的世界主义倾向相关联。尽管世界主义是当前国际学界热烈讨论的一个前沿理论话题,但是它在中国并不陌生。早在20世纪初中国就出现过谈论并主张世界主义的倾向,但由于当时中国的贫困和落后,主张世界主义只能是一味向西方靠拢。而当今中国成了全球化最大的受益者之一,再度讨论和建构新的世界主义可以使我们尽快地跻身世界发达国家行列,同时也可作为一个文化大国对世界文明做出应有的贡献。

In current international academia, ＂cosmopolitanism＂ has once again become a heatedly discussed and debated cutting edge theoretic topic. It appears frequently in the works of political philosophers and sociol- ogists, and often viewed by literary and cultural scholars as a perspective from which to analyze a given literary and cultural phenomenon. The appearance of cosmopolitanism and its reconstruction today have provided the phenomenon of globalization with theoretical foundation and associated it with the old cosmopolitanism in histo- ry. Although chiefly a cutting edge theoretic topic heatedly discussed in current international academia, cos- mopolitanism is not so unfamiliar to Chinese intellectuals. Early in the beginning of the 20th century, there appeared a tendency of talking on cosmopolitanism in Chinese intellectual circles. But at the time China was poor and backward, so calling for cosmopolitanism is nothing but approaching the West. Today, China has be- come one of the biggest winners in the process of globalization. In this sense, talking on cosmopolitanism and even reconstruct it from a Chinese perspective will enable China, as a cultural giant, to be quickly among the developed countries in the world so as to make greater contributions to world civilization.