美国先验主义与二十一世纪

IF 0.4 4区 社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Brian Wolfel
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摘要:美国先验主义作为一场19世纪的知识分子和社会运动,既可以为围绕后自由主义的学术辩论提供信息,也可以为COVID-19大流行的社会、政治和经济影响提供信息。全球资本主义,以及更广泛的全球化,定义了第二次世界大战之后的时代,直到COVID-19大流行爆发。全球资本主义/全球化的表现形式是有意无意地拒绝美国超验主义所体现的价值观,即非物质和唯心主义柏拉图主义的现代转世。例如,美国先验主义重视放弃(经济消费、教条主义神学和政治参与)、自然和灵性作为实现理想个人生活的手段,同时也为实现更高形式的政府和集体政治提供了基石。作为全球现代发展的高潮,2019冠状病毒病大流行提供了经验证据,证明了对物质主义经济的霸权承诺所固有的收益递减,代价是对先验主义理想的承诺相应贬值。拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生预言了这种收益递减的实现,他断言,在他的时代,先验主义的影响将比唯物主义的影响更持久。在COVID-19大流行爆发之前,美国青年作为一代人表现出“先验主义”属性,例如对宗教和党派关系的承诺减少,以及对政治参与的幻灭轨迹。美国的超验主义可以被认为是一种灵感的来源,并被应用于启发柏拉图主义和“超验”的后自由主义的新生审议。在人口结构变化、对后自由主义的呼吁以及COVID-19大流行的影响的汇合背景下,先验主义及其在21世纪的预期流行轮回可以用来产生一种新的、迄今为止隐藏的先验“历史的终结”叙事,作为“历史的终结”辩论(唯物主义自由主义和唯物主义共产主义之间)的两极化的替代方案。
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American Transcendentalism and the Twenty-First Century
abstract:American Transcendentalism, as a nineteenth-century intellectual and social movement, can inform both the academic debate surrounding post-liberalism and the social, political, and economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Global capitalism, and globalization more generally, defined the era subsequent to World War II until the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. The manifestation of global capitalism/globalization took place as a function of the rejection, whether conscious or unconscious, of the values embodied in American Transcendentalism as a modern reincarnation of immaterial and idealist Platonism. For example, American Transcendentalism valued renunciation (of economic consumption, dogmatic theology, and political participation), nature, and spirituality as the means for attaining an ideal personal life while also providing the building blocks for the attainment of a higher form of government and politics at the collective level. As a climactic global modern development, the COVID-19 pandemic provides empirical evidence for the diminishing returns that are inherent to the hegemonic commitment to materialist economy at the expense of corresponding devaluation of commitments to the ideals of transcendentalism. Ralph Waldo Emerson forecast the realization of such diminishing returns, in which he asserted the longevity of the impact of transcendentalism would be greater than that of the materialism in his era. Immediately prior to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, American youth as a generation exhibited “transcendentalist” attributes such as decreasing commitments to religious and partisan affiliations and a trajectory of disillusionment with political participation. American Transcendentalism can be considered and applied as a source of inspiration to inform nascent deliberations on post-liberalism that invoke Platonism and the “transcendental.” In the context of the confluence of demographic changes, calls for post-liberalism, and the fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic, transcendentalism and its prospective popular reincarnation in the twenty-first century can be applied to generate a new and heretofore hidden transcendental “end of history” narrative as an alternative to the bipolarity of the “end of history” debate (between materialist liberalism and materialist communism).
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