文化亲密性与中国社会公共生活的组织方式

Cultural Intimacy and the Organization of Public Life in Chinese Society

文化亲密性作为包括国家与地方、精英与大众在内的不同权力等级,以及公共与私密的不同领域所共享的文化特质,所表征出来的共同社会性,对于反思当下中国社会公共生活的组织方式具有重要意义。任何形式和层面的社会组织和团结的方式、公共空间的营造以及个体化的策略和路径,都弥漫和浸润着文化亲密性的意识。它决定了国家、社会和个体以何种最为经济和有效的形式联结和互动,从而在这一相互介入和妥协的文化亲密性地带,国家收获了忠诚意识,而个体"创造性"的伎俩(社会诗性)也受到宽容,社会得以有机地组织在一起。

Cultural intimacy as a cultural trait shared by the state and the local, the elite and the common people as well as the public and the private spheres embodies a kind of common sociality, which is significant for us to reflect on the current organizational ways of public life in Chinese society. This article shows that the sense of cultural intimacy pervades social organizations and unity of any forms and at any levels, creation of public space and individualization strategies. The author argues that cultural intimacy determines how the state, society and individuals connect and interact with each other most economically and effectively. In this culturally intimate zone of mutual intervention and compro- mise, the state wins the loyalty of individuals while individuals are tolerated in terms of their creativity. The society is thus bound together as an organic whole.