重新拥抱文化传统

Re-Embracing Chinese Cultural Tradition

重新拥抱文化传统,就必须首先反思"五四"新文化运动。"五四"新文化运动的"政治与文化"的双重性,使文化问题屈从于政治的激进主义,从而使中国文化传统的核心思想在现代世界的表述中被遮蔽了。在现代世界中,要重新拥抱中国文化传统,有双重任务,一是需要获取文化传统的现代的"合理性形式",从而展示其普遍意义;二是需要明了文化传统之于现代性社会的规范性意义。通过这两个层面的重新定位,再次拥抱自身的文化传统才能成为现实。

Re-embracing Chinese cultural tradition requires rel ection on the May Fourth New Culture Movement. h e movement was both political and cultural, but its cultural dimension was dominated by its political radicalism, which led to the main ideas of Chinese cultural tradition being long obscured in the modern narrative. Re-embracing Chinese cultural tradition in the modern world requires the achievement of two tasks： to acquire a modern ＂rational form＂ for the tradition to demonstrate its universal value; and to show clearly the normative ef ect of the cultural tradition on modern society. Only by redei ning the tradition through achieving these two tasks can we succeed in re-embracing the Chinese cultural tradition.