中国知识分子的现代寻根

现代性的冲击导致传统的解体,即
脱圣入俗
的过程。在这一过程中, 中国知识分子丧失了生存的根基, 成为社会流民、政治流民和文化流民。这造成了中国现代知识分子的现代性焦虑。于是, 中国知识分子开始了寻找生存家园即自我认同的过程。他们投身革命,并在传统社会主义中获得了社会认同、 政治认同和文化认同。但在这个过程中, 知识分子也付出了牺牲现代性特性的代价。随着现代性进程的重新启动,中国知识分子将重新确立自己的生存根基。

On the Modern Root-seeking of Chinese Intellectuals

Various impetuses of modern society have led to the disruption of traditions, which is known as the process of "going down to the secular world from sainthood." In the course of this great change, the Chinese intellectuals have gradually lost their original base for existence and become"social exiles", "political exiles" and "cultural exiles". This gives rise to time anxieties on the part of modern Chinese intellectuals. Under such circumstances, the Chinese intellectual have begun to seek homeland for survival. They engage themselves in various reforms, trying to obtain social, political and cultural recognition in the traditional socialist society. In this process, the Chinese intellectuals have also paid the cost of sacrificing their modernities. With the retriggering of the modernization progress, the Chinese intellectuals are sure to seek and establish their new base for existence.