塞林格:现代性伦理困境下的焦虑与禅宗式内在超越的双重存在

Salinger: Paradoxical existence of Angst and interior Zen transcendence in the ethical predicament of modernity

西方现代社会主体性意识的崛起与膨胀造成了巨大的现代性伦理学困境,这种困境为早期的塞林格造成了焦虑。现代性伦理学困境的极端形式——战争更是加强了塞林格身上业已存在的焦虑,战场上,塞林格通过写作来克服内心深刻的焦虑,表现出他性格中坚韧的一面。战后通过习练禅宗,塞林格开始用禅宗式内在超越来实现自我救赎,在书写中他用禅宗式内在超越来疗治焦虑。在西方现代性伦理困境下,塞林格身上体现出一种焦虑与禅宗式内在超越的双重存在。

The rise and rampage of subjective consciousness in Western modernization brought along a tremendous ethical predicament of modernity,which resulted in angst in young Salinger.War,an extreme ethical predicament of modernity proved to be eventually extra intensification of Salinger’s angst.In the war,Salinger appeared to be stoical in overpowering his psychological anxiety by means of writing.Practicing Zen Buddhism after the war,he began to turn to interior Zen transcendence for his self-salvation and as well in his literary works he resorted to interior Zen transcendence for a cure of spiritual anxiety.In the Western ethical predicament of modernity,Salinger showed us a paradoxical existence of angst and interior Zen transcendence in himself.