跨文化比较的困境及其重建——以朱利安间距论为中心

The Dilemma and Reconstruction of Cross-cultural Comparison--Centering on Jullien′s Theory of L′écart

朱利安认为,中国思想从根本上外在于印欧哲学,这种外在性使得中西文化具有“间距”,从而使中西文化比较缺少共同的平台;对当代学术而言,由于西方以现代的名义占据着思想的普遍性高地,当下的中西比较无法走出西方中心,这意味着中西文化比较的不可能性。事实上,中西方文化“间距”的存在,使得跨文化比较只能以一种“视角性”的方式展开其可能性,“视角性”比较关注中西的价值联系,而不是事实联系。

Jullien believes that Chinese thought is fundamentally external to Indo-European philosophy.This kind of exteriorite results in the"L′écart"between Chinese and Western cultures,and thus those two cultures actually lack a platform for comparison.As far as contemporary academics are concerned,since the West occupies the universal highland of thought in the name of modernity,the current comparison between China and the West cannot step out of the Western center,which means the impossibility of comparison.Unlike Jullien′s denial of the comparison between China and the West,this article holds that the"L′écart"between China and the West makes the comparison possible only in a way of"perspective",which pays more attention to the"value connection"between China and the West,rather than the"factual connection".