德、法文学领域“古今之争”辨析——以现代性时间观念为视野-《南京师大学报》（社会科学版）

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Title:: The Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns in German andFrench Literatures: From the Perspective ofModernization of Time Concept

Keywords:: modernization of time concept; linear concept of time; circular view of time; German literature and French literature; quarrel between the ancients and the moderns

摘要:: 德、法文学领域的“古今之争”体现了两国知识界在现代化转型期对于时间问题的关切。由于历史、传统、经济、文化及地域等多方面差异,法国知识界多信奉“线性时间观”及与之伴生的乐观“历史进步论”,德国知识界则对“线性时间观”态度谨慎,倾向于一种杂糅了“线性时间观”和“轮状时间观”的“文化时间观”。这种“向后看”的文化自觉不仅使德国启蒙界在时间观念上独树一帜,更导致其在现代化转型路径的选择中走上了一条“文化现代化”优于“社会现代化”的独特路径。

Abstract:: The quarrel of the ancients and the moderns in German and French literatures shows a concern over the concept of time in the transformation period of modernization. Due to various differences in history, traditions, economy, culture and geography, most French intellectuals believed in the linear concept of time and adopted a corresponding optimistic progressive theory of history, while their German counterparts, with reservations about such understanding of time and history, preferred a cultural concept of time, a mixture of the linear concept of time and a circular view of time. During the period of Enlightenment, such “looking back” cultural consciousness prevailed in Germany, accounting for their unique understanding of time concept, and the choice of a path of cultural modernization rather than social modernization in the transformation period.