重建欧洲“精神统一体”——二战后美国浪漫主义研究与比较文学美国学派的兴起

中国比较文学 ›› 2025, Vol. 0 ›› Issue (4): 75-90.

重建欧洲“精神统一体”——二战后美国浪漫主义研究与比较文学美国学派的兴起

张旭春

出版日期:2025-08-20 发布日期:2025-10-21
作者简介:张旭春,文学博士,四川外国语大学英语学院教授。研究方向：英国浪漫主义文学、西方文论、比较诗学。电子邮箱: 2536742515@qq.com。
基金资助:
国家社科基金重大项目“华兹华斯翻译与研究”（编号：21&ZD283）的阶段性成果

Reconstituting Europe as a “Coherent Spiritus”: On the Mutual Dependence of Romanticism and Comparativism from the Geopolitical Perspective

Zhang Xuchun

Online:2025-08-20 Published:2025-10-21

摘要/Abstract

摘要： 二战后,美国大学突然勃兴欧洲浪漫主义研究热潮,与此同时,以平行研究为方法论的比较文学美国学派也正式形成。这两个学术现象的同时出现并非偶然,而是受到整合战后破碎欧洲、重构欧洲精神统一体的地缘政治需求的驱动。此外,此种学术研究的“现实政治”关怀也是科耶夫解读黑格尔及其“普遍—均质国家”理论与创建欧盟的政治活动的主宰原则。在这种背景之下,我们有必要思考这样一个问题：中国比较文学学科是否也应该有我们自己的“现实政治”关怀?如果是,那么中国比较文学学科的“现实政治”关怀应该是什么?

关键词: 战后美国浪漫主义研究热潮, 比较文学美国学派的兴起, 欧洲精神统一体, 科耶夫与欧盟

Abstract: It is noteworthy that after the Second World War, the prominence of European Romanticism scholarship in the US universities coincides with the debut and boom of the American School of Comparative Literature. The two scholarly endeavors were nevertheless not fortuitous but driven by the same geopolitical aspiration - exploring a coherent European spiritus with which a unity of European nations could be reconstituted. Neither coincidental was the passion for European Realpolitik as the guiding principle of Kojève’s interpretation of Hegel, his formulation of the “universal and homogenous state” theory, and most important of all, his contribution to forming the EEC. Considering this historical context, it would be worthwhile for Chinese comparatists to re-map the Realpolitik mission of the discipline in China - should there be such a mission.

Key words: the prominence of Romanticism studies in post-war US, the debut of the American Comparativism, a coherent European spiritus, Alexandre Kojève and the EEC;

张旭春. 重建欧洲“精神统一体”——二战后美国浪漫主义研究与比较文学美国学派的兴起[J]. 中国比较文学, 2025, 0(4): 75-90.

Zhang Xuchun. Reconstituting Europe as a “Coherent Spiritus”: On the Mutual Dependence of Romanticism and Comparativism from the Geopolitical Perspective[J]. Comparative Literature in China, 2025, 0(4): 75-90.

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