中华文化走向世界与西方文化的“东方转向”

Chinese Culture Goes to the World and the“Orient Turn”of Western Culture

近代以来,西方在文化领域凸显个人主义、凸显工具理性,致使人的私欲和物欲膨胀、人对自然控制无限制地膨胀,造成了人类对自然界环境的严重破坏,致使人与人之间、国家与国家之间的关系日趋紧张,西方文化也随之陷入了危机不能自拔。20世纪,西方文化随着现代性的病症加重,开始了西方思想文化运动的“东方转向”。追溯西方思想文化运动“东方转向”的根本原因,在于资本主义制度本身的内在机制,故而在资本主义制度范围内西方文化的危机是无法摆脱的,于是西方文化界开始把目光投向东方,寻求摆脱西方文化危机的途径。西方文化“东方转向”与中华文化走向世界相遇,在这种相遇中既有相互碰撞、相斥,也有契合,会进一步整合世界文化。在未来世界文化的整合中,按照美国著名思想家、历史学家汤因比对世界文化未来走向的预言:中华文化会引导世界走向更好的文明。

Since modern times,the West has highlighted individualism and instrumental rationality in the cultural field,resulting in the expansion of people’s selfish desire and material desire,and the unlimited expansion of people’s control over nature,which has caused serious damage to the natural environment of human beings,and the increasingly tense relationship between people and between countries,thus the western culture has also fallen into crisis.In the 20th century,with the aggravation of the disease of modernity,the western culture began the“oriental turn”’of the western ideological and cultural movement.The fundamental reason for the“oriental turn”’of the western ideological and cultural movement is the capitalist system itself,so the crisis of western culture within the scope of the capitalist system cannot be extricated,so the western cultural circles began to look to the east and seek ways to get rid of the crisis of western culture.The“Oriental Turn”’of Western culture and the Chinese culture’s encounter with the world have both collided,repelled,and coincided.In the future integration of world culture,according to the prediction of the famous American thinker and historian Toynbee on the future trend of world culture,Chinese culture will lead the world to a better civilization.