“问题意识”考论——兼与萧延中教授商榷

On″Wenti Yishi″:A Response to the Translation of″Problématique″

“问题意识”是近年来常出现于各类论文写作教学和项目申报中的学术热词,但“问题意识”究竟是译词还是构词,其词源鲜获盘诘。萧延中教授认可将法语词problématique和“问题意识”对译,这个观点值得商榷。巴什拉对problématique概念的论述具有启轫意义,阿尔都塞更系统地发展了problématique,其核心在于“问题无意识”。在中文语境中,“问题意识”更可能是“问题”和“意识”的构词,是一个被无意识征用的现代汉语词汇。从学术路径来看,“问题意识”暗含了一种黑格尔式本质论的思维模式,而阿尔都塞的problématique概念是反黑格尔的。与“问题意识”的译法相比,“问题构成”是problématique更为恰当的翻译,也提供了一条审视当代中国人文和社会思想脉络的路径。

″Wenti Yishi(问题意识)″is a trending term widely used in the Chinese academic contexts today.It needs to be further examined whether the term is a result of translation or word formation as Professor Xiao Yanzhong considered it a proper translation of the French word″problématique.″The concept of″problématique″was first elaborated by Gaston Bachelard and was further developed by Louis Althusser who stressed that a problématique was generated by the″unconsciousness.″″Wenti Yishi″is more likely a product of the formation of two pairs of words″Wenti″and″Yishi″in Chinese language.Closely related with″problem″,″Wenti Yishi″is unconsciously invoked as a modern Chinese vocabulary,implying a Hegelian-essentialist epistemology,while the″problématique″in Althusser′s parlance takes an anti-Hegelian path.Compared with the misleading term″Wenti Yishi,″″Wenti Goucheng(问题构成)″is a proper translation of″problématique″and may serve as an effective approach to interrogating the intellectual underpinnings of the Humanities and Social Sciences in China today.