“A spirit of strange meaning”: The Chinese Roots of Wordsworth’s Monism in The Ruined Cottage

IF 0.2 4区 社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Yu Liu
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ABSTRACT In both his life and poetry, The Ruined Cottage marked a decisive breakthrough for Wordsworth, which resulted from his daring adoption and sustained use of a monistic idea. Though hitherto mostly dismissed or construed as a derivative of Platonism, Stoicism, Christian mysticism, and/or other conventional English and European concepts and usually seen as part of his supposedly quietist retreat from radical politics, the philosophy of One Life which Wordsworth promoted was in reality a recognizably unconventional conceptual innovation, which indeed made possible his poetic and political innovations in The Ruined Cottage and beyond. In the larger context of ideas that extends well beyond England and Europe and involves in particular the Chinese cosmological belief in tianren heyi or humanity’s unity with heaven, this essay explores Wordsworth’s innovative use of monism in The Ruined Cottage and argues for a significantly different understanding of Wordsworth and the related rise of English Romanticism.
“意义奇特的精神”:华兹华斯一元论的中国根源
在华兹华斯的人生和诗歌创作中,《破茅屋》都标志着他的一个决定性突破,这源于他对一元论思想的大胆采纳和持续运用。尽管到目前为止,华兹华斯提倡的“一生一世”哲学大多被认为是柏拉图主义、斯多葛主义、基督教神秘主义和/或其他传统英国和欧洲观念的衍生品,通常被视为他从激进政治中撤退的一部分,但实际上,华兹华斯提倡的“一生一世”哲学是一种公认的非常规观念创新,这确实使他在《废小屋》及以后的诗歌和政治创新成为可能。在更大的思想背景下,远远超出了英国和欧洲,特别是涉及中国的宇宙信仰天人合一或人类与天堂的统一,这篇文章探讨了华兹华斯在《破小屋》中对一元论的创新运用,并主张对华兹华斯和相关的英国浪漫主义的兴起有一个明显不同的理解。
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European Legacy-Toward New Paradigms
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