“文变”之后:蔡元培文学思想的新开展

After Wen Bian (Change of Literature): The New Development of Cai Yuanpei’s Literary Thoughts

蔡元培文学思想的“新开展”,时间上涵盖了他的后半生,其中对于中国文学与文化的重新阐释解说,糅合了进化论、革命论、沿革说、替代说等,生成一套具有蔡元培个人知识逻辑、思想逻辑、伦理逻辑与审美逻辑的“文艺中兴”说。这一学说不仅在历史和理论上借用了欧洲的“文艺复兴”学说,而且将晚清以来中国政治、文化上的种种变革,与欧洲近代文化、文明的全球化扩展关联起来,通过两者之间实际存在着的影响激发关系,将晚清以降中国思想文化的历史叙述,纳入到了世界历史的进程之中,并通过文学这一具体形式的实践,来尝试中国近现代史这一国别个案与全球化语境及全球史之间的对接。

The “new development” of Cai Yuanpei’s literary thought covered the latter half of his life in time. His interpretation of Chinese literature and culture combined the theory of evolution, revolution and substitution, which produced a set of Renaissance theory with Cai Yuanpei’s personal knowledge logic, ideological logic, ethical logic and aesthetic logic. This theory not only borrowed the European theory of Renaissance in history and theory, but also connected various changes in Chinese politics and culture since the late Qing Dynasty with the globalization and expansion of modern European culture and civilization. And through the actual influence and stimulating relationship between the above two, it led the history of Chinese ideology and culture since the late Qing Dynasty into the process of world history, and through the specific form of literature tried to realize the docking between the national case of Chinese modern history and the context of globalization and global history.