文论话语的有效性与适度理性——关于我国当代文艺学学科建设症结的思考

近二十年中国文论的进展有目共睹,其弊端则一言以蔽之,曰缺乏有效性,或曰自说自话。建立有效的文论话语的关键是在学理中说话,接着古今中外的经典所开始的路数讲,而只有重建经典所提出的问题,我们才能进入学理。这种重建就必然已是当代的和中国式的了,因此,必须反对借“中国式”的口实避开对经典的刻苦研读,走捷径。值此理性与现代性一起遭受怀疑之际,这种倡导适度理性的学术态度庶几对矫枉过正有所补益。

Validity and Relative Reason in the Literary Theory--On Main Plights in the Studies of Literary Theory in Contemporary China

Literary criticism in the last twenty years has constantly engendered a lack or abuse of the validity of the discourse in literary theory. The reconstruction of this validity will have to focus on the exploration of reason in the literary theory, which can be accessed only through a critical review of the traditional rationality. The excuse of a "Chinese way of reading" may help avoidance the scrutiny of the classical works. This extreme attitude of a critical reconstruction of the academic reason will perhaps be practical with modern literary studies at a time of doubts atout rationality and modernity.