超越西方现代性:中国式现代化开创人类文明新形态

Sublating Western Modernity:A Chinese Path to Modernization Creatinga New Form of Human Civilization

习近平的多次讲话和党中央的多份文件,建立了“中国式现代化”与“人类文明新形态”之间的联系。相关表述留给学界一项重要的理论任务,即挖掘、剖析,并解释这种联系。这项经验性的解释任务从学理上要求将中国式现代化纳入世界历史纵横交叉的时空坐标中进行系统性的综合考察。作为一种历时性与共时性相统一的双重运动,中国式现代化能否开创人类文明新形态或能否确证已然开创了人类文明新形态,存在两大指标性参照对象:纵向历时态维度上作为本体的中国古代文明和横向共时态维度上作为他者的西方现代文明。中国式现代化对中国古代文明的超越在很大程度上具有某种显在的自明性,现代中国对传统中国的超越已然内涵于中国现代化的转型追索之中。

Many speeches by General Secretary Xi Jinping and documents of the Party Central Committee have established a link between“Chinese modernization”and“a new form of human civilization”.The relevant formulation leaves the academic community with an important theoretical task of exploring,dissecting,and explaining the connection.This empirical task of interpretation requires a systematic and comprehensive investigation of Chinese modernization into the spatio-temporal coordinate of world history.As a dual movement that unifies the diachronic and the synchronic,there are two major indicative target objects as to whether or not Chinese modernization can usher in a new form of human civilization or whether or not it can be proved to have already ushered in such a new form:ancient Chinese civilization as an ontology in the vertical diachronic dimension and modern Western civilization as an Other in the horizontal synchronic dimension.To a large extent,the transcendence of Chinese modernization to ancient Chinese civilization has a certain self-evident nature,and the transcendence of modern China to traditional China has been included in the pursuit of the transformation of Chinese modernization.Given that western modernity is the cornerstone of modern civilization in capitalist societies,and that western civilization has long been the dominant style of modern human civilization,whether and how to transcend western modernity has become the key to the creation of a new form of human civilization by Chinese modernization.