大众文化理性中的文学想象

大众消费文化的急骤繁荣,使社会各方面在没有充分准备的情况下进入社会转型期,这构成中国文学想象的时代前提与历史契机.这是一个实践立法的时期.由此形成两幅代表性想象图景,即文学边缘化想象图景与文学的后现代想象图景,这两幅图景各坚持既在理性的模式化与非理性的非模式化,它们各执一端但都与时无补.文学想象的时代性超越须坚持海德格尔所说的"生命关联"与"时间统一".文学史证明,历史上非凡想象总是从历史纵深升起.文学想象的有效性在于其理性根据,胡塞尔称这种理性根据为"经验关联体".以大众消费文化繁荣为重要特征的社会转型使既在理性即"经验关联体"获得了被悬置的时代可能性,这为维柯所说的造成想象超越的"诗的智慧"的活跃创造了条件.既要反思于既在理性又要激发非理性的"诗的智慧",两者兼备的文学想象主体眼下尚待形成.

The Literary Imagination in the Mass Cultural Rationality

The sudden boom of the mass consumer culture in China has ushered our society into a transitional period without adequate preparation in various aspects,which forms the time premise and historic opportunity for literary imagination in China.This is a period of practical legislation which generates two typical imaginaires,namely,the imaginaires of literary marginalization and literary postmodernism.The two imaginaires stick to the established rational models and irrational non-models respectively,doing no good to the contemporary society.The epochal transcendence of literary imagination should conform to what Martin Heidergger called "the life correlation" and "the unity of time".It is repeatedly proved that almost all extraordinary imaginations in literary history derive from history itself.The validity of literary imagination lies in its rational groundings,which Edmund Husserl called "the experience correlation".The social transition,characterized by the boom of the mass consumer culture,makes the epoche of established rationality possible,which provides conditions for the vibrance of Vico's "poetic wisdom".The subject of literary imagination combining both the established rationality and irrational "poetic wisdom" is yet to be formulated.