现代性框架中的历史反思

Historical Reflections in the Frame of Modernity

现代性的想象机制是由技术想象和历史想象共同构成的。关于极权主义的经历加深了赫勒对宏大历史叙事崩塌的理解,也激发了对自由民主真实含义的理解。极权主义的出现被归结为历史想象和技术想象的"一种不神圣的婚姻",是伦理力量缺失的结果。极权主义是非理性的,是对偶然性的否定。

The imagination mechanism of modernity consists of technological imagination and historical imagination. Heller＇s unique experience on totalitarianism deepened her understanding on the collapse of grand narrative on history, and promoted her understanding on the true meaning of freedom and democracy. The emergence of totalitarianism is ＂a kind of unhallowed marriage＂ between historical imagination and technological imagination. Totalitarianism is the result of the absence of ethic. It is irrational and the denial of contingency.