T.S.艾略特的保守主义政治文化观

On T. S. Eliot's Conservative Political and Cultural Concept

T.S.艾略特自称为英国温和保守主义的继承者,他对当时自由主义的平等、民主、自由和个人至上等观念大加斥责,对保守主义政治意识形态大加赞赏。他提出健康与和谐的社会应该尊重传统,当然他所认为的传统是动态发展的,是具体社会—历史的。面对世界大战带来的社会危机,他主张建立社会等级制,确保少数精英在文化、政治等各方面的社会导向作用。同时,他主张建立拥有新的基督教文化的基督教国家以及基督教社会,救赎濒临崩溃的西方文明和西方社会。艾略特的保守主义政治文化观呈现了他的社会忧患意识,展示了他敢于"面对社会发言"的形象。

T. S. Eliot calls himself as an inheritor of British mild conservatism, so he denounces such concepts as equality, free- dom, democracy and individualism advocated by the liberalism, and extols the ideological form of conservatism. He puts forth that a healthy and harmonious society should respect tradition. Of course, the tradition what he thinks should be dynamic and so- cial-historical. Facing the social crisis brought about by the world war, he proposes to establish a hierarchical system to guarantee the cultural, political and social leadership of the elites. He claims that a Christian state and a Christian society with a new Chris- tian culture should be accepted to save the western civilization and western societies from its destruction. Eliot＇s concept of con- servative political culture exhibits his social tragic awareness, and his image of ＂daring to speak out for the society＂.