寻找历史的缝隙——关于“人文精神讨论”的述评与思考

Searching the Gap of History——Rethinking the “Free Discussion on Humanistic Spirit"

"人文精神讨论"是20世纪90年代最重要的文化论争之一,涉及20世纪80年代向90年代文化转型过程中人文知识界遇到的种种困惑和问题。目前学术界对"人文精神讨论"的研究大多着眼于"事件"和"话语"两个层面,缺乏一种整体的"历史化"视角。以"历史化"的方式来重新观照"人文精神讨论"以及20世纪90年代文学,将会发现"十七年"文学是一个被遮蔽的参照系,"人文精神"讨论提供了一种历史的"缝隙",20世纪80年代文学和90年代文学在此互相建构并生成各自的历史想象。

The ＂Free Discussion on Humanistic Spirit＂ in 1990s＇ China is one of the most important cultural debates involving various puzzles and problems encountered by the intelligentsia during the process of cultural transformation between the 1980s to the 1990s. Currently, studies on ＂Free Discus- sion on Humanistic Spirit＂ are mostly focused on the ＂event＂ and ＂discourse＂, which lacks in an inte- gral historical perspective. A reexamination of the ＂Free Discussion on Humanistic Spirit＂ as well as the literature in the 1990s from a historical perspective would be expected to shed light on the 17-year Literature as an shaded frame of reference. The ＂Free Discussion on Humanistic Spirit＂ provides a ＂historical gap＂ in which literature of 1980s and 1990s mutually construct and generate their own his- torical imagination.