批评需要文化想象--对当代文学批评的一点思考

本文从艺术想象与文化想象、文学的价值向度与文化想象、文学批评与文化想象等关系域,提出并阐释了文学批评需要文化想象的理论命题.文中认为文化想象是全球化语境下,以文化为资源的社会性想象,不同于一般的艺术想象;在现时态的文学中,想象的多元以及由此而生的价值向度的歧义,呼唤着有意义的文学批评;马克思主义的批评从来就包含着科学的文化想象,当代文学批评要与批评的对象相适应,不仅要对文学中的文化想象予以臧否评价,而且它应当以积极的文化想象为前提去批评,更多地给人以理想和憧憬、给人以信仰和形而上的支持,从而不失其批评的职责.

Criticism Demands Cultural Imagination--Reflection on the Literary Criticism of Contemporary Time

This essay presents and interprets the theoretical proposition that literary criticism demands cultural imagination from the relation between artistic imagination and cultural imagination, the relation between literary value measure and cultural imagination, the relation between literary criticism and cultural imagination and so on. It thinks that the cultural imagination is the social imagination that regards culture as resources in the globalization context, different from the general artistic imagination; In the literature of the present tense, the multiplicity of imagination and the ambiguity of value measure that engendered from it aspire after the meaningful literary criticism; Marxian criticism has always included the scientific cultural imagination. The contemporary literary criticism needs to go with the critical object. It not only should evaluate the cultural imagination in the literature, but also should criticize on the premise of the positive cultural imagination, and give people the ideal, the faith and the support of the metaphysics, thus not lose its duty of criticism.