不在现场的参与:顾颉刚与“五四”的思想关联

Participation Outside the Field: The Ideological Connection between Gu Jiegang and the May Fourth Movement

“五四”学生运动期间,顾颉刚为《新潮》杂志撰文,为学生领袖们出谋划策,他成了“五四”不在现场的参与者。这中间,“用学问去改造社会”是其思想的核心。他与傅斯年、罗家伦等人在“学问”的内涵和观念更新的路径上的分歧,固然反映在认知上,但也与在现场和不在现场的视角差异有关。在“家庭改造”中,顾颉刚的境遇反映了中心城市以外的大多数知识青年真切的精神状况。而他对亲情、家庭责任的强调,对决绝改造方式的怀疑,揭示了“家庭改造”本身的复杂性。最后,顾颉刚以走出旧家庭的方式,完成了他作为“新青年”的洗礼。

During the May Fourth Movement,Gu Jiegang wrote for the magazine “The Renaissance” and advised the student leaders,and therefore became a participant outside the field of the May Fourth Movement. In the meantime,he proposed “to reform society with learning”,which is the core of his thoughts. His differences with Fu Sinian,Luo Jialun and the others in ideas on the connotation of “learning” and the way of concept renewal were reflected in cognition,and also correlated with their perspectives from on-the-spot and outside-the-field. In the “family revolution”,Gu Jiegang's situation reflected the spiritual condition of most of the educated youths outside the central city,his emphasis on the family love and family responsibility and doubt about the way of radical reform revealed the complexity of “family revolution”. Finally,by leaving the old family,Gu Jiegang was baptized and became a “new youth”.