生活时间与财富时间的辩证关系──“时间都去哪儿了”的内在逻辑

The Dialectical Relationship Between Time for Life and Time for Wealth in Modern Society——the Inherent Logic of Where Did the Time Go

当前生活时间缺乏已经成为一种社会现象,流行歌曲《时间都去哪儿了?》正是大众对生活时间缺乏的反思。它凸显了当下生活时间与财富时间的纠结,生活时间缺乏既与现代社会起源携带的精神气质有关,又与资本主义生产方式的时间设定有关。对于转型社会背景下的中国而言,日常生活与财富、资本的多重时间交叉促使转型时空中的个体面临时间不断转换调整的压力。韦伯和马克思对现代社会时间的分析对我们很有启发,但他们的观点、方法和立场存在差异,这需要结合中国转型发展的具体境域,深化对生活时间与财富时间关系的认知,进而通过社会制度设计来维护生活时间的边界。

As the lack of time for life has become a social phenomenon, pop song Where did the Time Go represents people's reflection on this issue. The song highlights the struggle between time for life and time for wealth, and the lack of the former can be attributed to the ethos brought about by the origin of modern society and to the capitalist production mode. Under the background of transformation, individuals in contemporary China have to face up to the increasing pressure from time adjustment brought by the overlapping of time for life, wealth and capital.Weber's and Marx's analysis of time in modern society is very enlightening; however, their opinions,methods and positions are different, which calls for a deep study into the relationship between life for time and life for wealth under the specific circumstance of Chinas transformation, so as to protect the time for life through social system design.