身体现代性的生成及其话语向度——以晚近“身体遭逢”为对象

The Formation of Body Modernity and Its Discourse Dimension: A Case Study of “Body Encounter” in Modern China

身体现代性作为文化现代性发生的一个侧面,在塑造公众现代意识的历史演进过程中发挥了明显的作用。身体的言说和阐释对应着近代启蒙运动中的国民塑造过程,这种现代性的生成过程表征出政治性的隐喻色彩。尤其是从晚近"身体遭逢"及其处境,我们不难看到国民身体的社会生成过程,其过度支配的境况反映出时代的需求和欲望,也投射出身体话语被国家化的建构历程。身体的出场在一定程度上有效纾解了变法或改革的焦虑,并成为政治、军事乏力之后产生的替代性话语途径,这也是近代身体的真实遭遇和无奈羁绊。

Body modernity played an important role in the process of shaping cultural modernity. Discourse of the body corresponded to the modern enlightenment,and expressed the political metaphor of the formation of modernity. From the issue of＂body encounter＂in modern China,we see the production process of the national body,the over-dominance of which reflected the needs of the time. The appearance of the body,to a certain extent,eased the anxiety of reform,which was also the body＇s frustration.