挑战现代化的现代性理论——读《远方的陌生人》

A Challenging Theory of Modernity:A Review on Distant Strangers

弗农《远方的陌生人》一书从历史学传统出发,兼采社会学、政治学和经济学诸多研究成果,从陌生人社会出发探索现代性的变迁,发掘了对陌生人交往、交易和治理的不断抽象化的诸种形式。同时抽象化的形式也将社会、经济和政治生活再嵌入地方关系和个人关系中。本书阐述了现代性的现象和本质,重新激活了"现代性"这一概念的活力。这也是迄今少有的对中国现代性予以认可的并与国内相关领域研究立场相近的研究著作,值得学界和普通人进一步阅读和讨论。

forms also make social,economic and political life reimbued into local relations and personal relationships.It is also one of the few researche works that have recognized Chinese modernity.This book is worthy of further reading and discussion by scholars and ordinary people.