东北大学学报(社会科学版) ›› 2019, Vol. 21 ›› Issue (4): 428-434.DOI: 10.15936/j.cnki.1008-3758.2019.04.014

• 语言文学研究 • 上一篇    下一篇

交往行为视角下斯诺小说《新人》中的“两种文化”

姜慧玲1,2   

  1. (1.清华大学人文学院,北京100084;2.大连外国语大学公共外语教研部,辽宁大连116044)
  • 收稿日期:2019-03-10 修回日期:2019-03-10 出版日期:2019-07-25 发布日期:2019-07-19
  • 通讯作者: 姜慧玲
  • 作者简介:姜慧玲(1982-),女,辽宁大连人,清华大学博士研究生,大连外国语大学讲师,主要从事当代英国文学研究。

“Two Cultures” in The New Men by C. P. Snow from the Perspective of Communicative Action

JIANG Hui-ling1,2   

  1. (1. School of Humanities, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China; 2. Department of Second Foreign Languages Teaching and Research, Dalian University of Foreign Languages, Dalian 116044, China)
  • Received:2019-03-10 Revised:2019-03-10 Online:2019-07-25 Published:2019-07-19
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摘要: 英国小说家C.P.斯诺以“两种文化”演讲及其争论而闻名,他的小说《新人》既反映了“两种文化”的对立与不解,又与演讲中的唯科学主义论调相悖。以哈贝马斯的科技批判和交往行为理论来分析《新人》,主人公科学“新人”马丁从一心投入原子弹的研发并追求权力,到在科技理性和道德的博弈中作出抉择,最终放弃原子弹的研发工作和巴福特基地的领导职位,并与人文学者兄长刘易斯达成和解,其生活世界从被系统殖民化到还原通过兄弟俩“正当而真诚”的交往行为来实现,可见人文精神在科技与意识形态相结合可能带来严重后果的现代社会中的重要作用。

关键词: 科技批判, 交往行为, 《新人》, “两种文化”, 人文精神

Abstract: The British novelist C. P. Snow is well known for the “two cultures” controversy, and from a close and objective scrutiny, it is found that his novel The New Men both reflects the contradiction as well as inaccessibility of the “two cultures”, and at the same time contradicts with the “scientism” in his lecture. Based on the critique of instrumental reason and the theory of communicative action by Jurgen Habermas, it can be seen that Martin, the scientist hero of The New Men, first devoted himself to the creation of the atom bomb and the pursuit of power, then hesitated between scientific and technological reason and morality, and finally renounced the creation of the atom bomb and the power of Barford, reconciling with his humanist brother Lewis. The colonization and resumption of the lifeworld are realized through “fair and sincere” communication of the brothers, from which the important function of humanistic spirit can be seen in the modern world, where the combination of science, technology and ideology might yield severe consequences.

Key words: critique of science and technology, communicative action, The New Men, “two cultures”, humanistic spirit

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