世纪之交的"现代"与"后现代"

现代与后现代既有联系,又有区别,其共同点为反叛传统、标新立异,具有先锋姿态。后现代是对现代的继承和发展,更是对它的反拨与叛逆。世纪之交中国的现代与后现代大体停留于对西方的移植、仿效、阐释,但亦有一定程度的改造。尼采宣告“上帝死了,”必然导致现代主义以“人的自我为中心”作为最重要的特征,福柯“人的死亡,”巴特“作者之死”的思想导致“以语言为中心”成为后现代最重要的特征。现代主义构建深度模式,而后现代主义则削平成消解这种深度,却具有另一种深度——肤浅中的深刻。

"Modernism" and "Postmodernism" at Turning-point of Centuries

There exist both similarities and differences between "the Modernism" and "the Postmodernism".Their similarities are unconventional,strange and unorthodox.The Postmodernism is a succession and development of the Modernism,what's more,it is a rebellion against the Modernism.Both "the Modernism" and "the Postmodernism" in China at the turning-point of the Centuries were generally transplanting,imitating and expounding the Western theories.However,some transformations of them did appear.Nietzsche's declaration that God was dead had definitely led to Modernist most important characteristic "human egoism".Fock's "human death" and Barth's "author's death" had resulted in Postmodernist most important character "language center".The Modernism had tried to construct a depth pattern,while the Postmodernism tried to cut and level such depth.Instead the Postmodernism had another depth,i.e.a skinny depth.