中国近现代出版理念与知识分子现代性转型的内在关系

“理念出版”和“职业出版”是近现代中国的出版理念,这一理念的形成与现代转型后中国知识分子价值体系不可分。现代出版产业的出现,不仅推动了近代出版的专业化道路,同时也为转型后的知识分子开辟出一个广阔的知识分子公共话语空间。     

Sometimes I Hear Life Going: On the Remoteness from Life in Modernity

Modernity seems to bring a type of relationship with life whereby life appears to be distant. Individuals may mitigate this distance by attaining a meaningful life, but this requires time, decisions and a purpose. In the late modern context, these dimensions – time, decisions and vital purposes – appear to be shaped in a way that further increases this remoteness. This paper analyses how the narratives associated with these three dimensions foster a way of understanding them that restricts the relationship which individuals build with their own lives. The late-modern remoteness from life may stem from experiencing a lifetime without significant time, decisions without real choice and particular forms of self-fulfilment that misappropriate the relationship with life.     

Corporations,subjects, and citizens: the peculiar modernity of early Hispanic liberalism

Abstract

The varying degrees of political novelty and continuity brought about by the arrival of Hispanic constitutionalism are assessed in this article. It sheds light on the adaptations and the role played by pre-existing discourses and rituals in the articulation of the self-proclaimed “liberal” institutions, both in the Iberian Peninsula and in the new independent Latin American territories. The tensions between individualistic and collectivistic representations of political power are at the centre of the analysis. The text thus seeks to make an original contribution to current debates in historiography regarding the emergence of a liberal subjectivity in the early nineteenth century and its limits.     

Media influences and effects on experiences of uncertainty and fear in urban public spaces

From the point of a normative idea of equality, all citizens are entitled to equal access to the cities public spaces. In the public debate, the media have often been blamed for contributing to people＇s fear and insecurity and the avoidance of public places, especially after dark. In this paper, the author addresses the question of how and to what extent experiences of risk and threats in the media, perceptions of crime coverage in the media and third-person-effects of risk and threats influence the degree of avoidance of public places and the variation in people＇s experiences of the sensation of feeling fear and insecurity in public places. The main results presented here are primarily based on survey data from a well known regional survey （Western SOM） performed in 2001-2007 on approximately 3,000 inhabitants in the local region of Gothenburg, Sweden. Experiences of risk and threats through the media are of minor importance for the independent effect on the experiences of the sensation of feeling fear and insecurity in public spaces. The main role of the media is through the perceptions the respondents have on media coverage on crime and media influence on their own and others experiences of threats and risks. Those that believe that media coverage on crime is understated have to a greater extent avoided public places and experienced the sensation of feeling fear and insecurity than those that believe that media coverage of crime is coherent with reality or overstated. The third-person-effects that occur also have consequences. Those that believe that media influence experiences of threats and risks have to a greater extent experienced the sensation of feeling fear and insecurity than those that don＇t believe in media influence （on both others and themselves）. The main conclusion presented in this paper is that the avoidance of public places and variation in people＇s experiences of the sensation of feeling fear and insecurity in public places is more related to people＇s perceptions of media content and media influence regarding risk and threats than experiences of risk and threats through the media. This, however, doesn＇t mean that the experience of risk and threats through the media doesn＇t matter. Experience of risk and threats through the media matters, but do so through reinforcing personal and social experiences of risk and threats.     

艺术转向与日常生活审美化

“日常生活审美化”现象的发生与艺术自身的发展演变有关。康德以来的“现代性”艺术观念带来了艺术与生活原初联系的断裂,造成现代艺术的困境,使艺术产生了转向。黑格尔和丹托的“艺术终结论”从不同的出发点、不同的层面揭示了艺术走出困境从而转向、再生的可能。日常生活审美化正是艺术转向的途径和表现。     

清末监狱改良思想的现代性

中国监狱改良思想的滥觞与兴起是近代以来的事情.1901年8月刘坤一和张之洞会奏之折以及1902年底赵尔巽关于通设罪犯习艺所的上书开启了中国近代监狱改良的思想之门.随着清末新政的推进与预备立宪的进行,各种监狱改良思想亦随之涌现、渐至兴起并日臻成熟.清末监狱改良思想基本具备了西方狱制思想之现代性.     

Islamism,secularization, secularity: the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt as a phenomenon of a secular age

The paper outlines parallels between the processes of secularization and secularity in the West, as interpreted by José Casanova and Charles Taylor, and Islamism as a modern social and political phenomenon. It focuses on the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood’s history and ideas and specifically on a number of public documents detailing its social and political vision. I argue that if we define ‘secularization’ not only as the weakening of religious belief, but as the institutional differentiation of modern state structures and the marginalization of religion, and ‘secularity’ as the process whereby faith becomes one option among others and religion becomes an identifiable set of beliefs seen as guidelines for reform, the Brotherhood, similarly to other Islamist entities, is a phenomenon of a ‘secular age’.     

公安文艺的现代性思考

现代性是公安文艺价值判断的一种维度,公安文艺自身具有源远流长的现代性因子。不过由于历史等方面的原因,公安文艺的现代性在二十世纪历程曲折。当代公安文艺有了良好的生长环境,应该不断汲取历史资源,发掘人性,表现悲剧,反思社会,创新艺术,从而丰富和发展公安文艺的美学现代性。     

现代中国女性作家与生成的现代性

本文以精卫鸟这一氤氲贯穿于现代中国女性作家由"尽心力"以"创人生"开启书写的具体意象出发,探讨了她们在风格多样的跨界转换中孕育生成的现代本体驱动和寓意形态。文中以秋瑾、冰心、卢隐、萧红、丁玲等作家书写为例,分析其对于生物族裔政治及其建构逻辑的"结构性潜意识"如何与其以"尽心力"而移动结构性限制、改写历史命运的"日常胆识"相互交织融合。这样的意识与身体互融,以不同的形式渗透并推动着这些女性书写,在认知与情感、伦理与审美的结合融通中,进一步催生了跨界诗学的变革动能。本文旨在示意蕴含其中有待阐释的历史信息,与常规西学自现代以来的两分法及其既定内容呈现出的差异对照。精卫鸟与现代中国女性作家所承载的"生成的现代性"为叩问、改写、融会、扬弃由这些族裔、性别、物种范畴暨分类逻辑所规定的现代西学及其局限性提供了有力的思想资源。     

Islamism, Nationalism, and Western Modernity: The Case of Iran and Palestine

The rise of Islamic politics in the Middle East, particularly since the Iranian revolution, is the most cited example that supposedly testifies to the “clean” separation between “Islam” and the “West.” In this essay, I argue that it is not Islamic movements and ideology that confirm this separation. Rather, it is their incorporation into the scheme of Western modernity, with its binary distinctions and evolutionary reading of history, which constructs this separation. Using examples from Iran and Palestine, I show how Islamic ideology indeed defies the basic premises of Western discourse on modernity, expose its limitations, and question the constitution of Islam and the West as allegedly distinct, even opposing, categories.