关于审美世界主义的思考

Reflections on aesthetic cosmopolitanism

世界主义作为一种冲动和野心,指出了人们在熟悉的参照系之外发现更多关于社会和文化世界的方式,超越了人们的当下处境和有限的人类关切,它伴随着全球化和全球文化的前景浮现而产生,通过团结和认同陌生他者的道德理想而获得动力。然而,世界主义的愿景在处理多元文化主义时遭遇了困难,因为它对人类更高层次的身份认同里蕴含着更严重的从现有文化抽象出来并分离的危险。理解世界主义,必须放弃绝对性和普遍性的观念,把它看作为一个充满变化又没有终点的动态过程,多元文化所产生的差异的情感电荷为审美世界主义和消费文化开辟了道路。

As an impulse and ambition,Cosmopolitanism points to the way we discover more about the social and cultural worlds outside our accustomed frame and casts outwards beyond our current situation and limited human concerns.It is generated alongside globalization and the prospect of a global culture.It gains impetus through the ethical ideal of solidarities and identifications beyond the familiar.However,the cosmopolitan vision runs into difficulty in dealing with multiculturalism because its higher level of human identity carries with it the greater danger of abstraction and separation from existing culture.To understand cosmopolitanism,people must give up the concept of absolutism and universality and regard it as a dynamic process which is unstable and without endpoint.The emotional charge of difference produced by diverse cultures opens the way for aesthetic cosmopolitanism and consumer culture.