中西之辨:中国的现代性视界

The Distinction between China and the West: Chinese Perspective of Modernity

本文认为现代性由于其普世主义原则而显出全球性-世界性意识，但对于现代性的“不同的理解和解释”使文化误读成为跨文化交往的本质特征。作为后发型现代性的中国，文化认同与文化差异之间的必要张力，是中西之辨的根本命题，它为中国文化现代性的自我生成提供了深刻的文化基础。影响的焦虑贯穿中国现代性文化思索的全过程，从自我与他者的不无偏至的比较到文化创造性彰显(形成)之时，才是基于平等观念的文化对话开始的时刻，它是中国文化现代性自写能力生成的标志，所以“潜力”其实与创造力是同一个概念，而“影响”的深意直指“创造性”。

The author of this paper holds the view that though modernity, for the universalism principle it takes, shows the trend of globalism, its different understanding and interpretation makes the cultural misreading the intrinsic character of cross culture intercourse. In China, because of the late successive modernity, the tension between the cultural identity and cultural difference is the basic topic of the distinction between China and the West and provides a fundamental cultural basis for the self generation of cultural modernity. The anxiety of impact goes through the whole process of cultural reflection on Chinese modernity, from the comparison of Self and Other with more or less bias to the formation of the cultural creativity which is the starting point of equal cultural intercourse and the sign of the generation of self writing ability of Chinese cultural modernity. Therefore, the potentiality can be considered the same concept as creativity and the deep sense of impact is just the creativity.