说沈从文追求现代性,指的是他在人生旅程中不由自主地受西方近现代资本主义世界发展思潮的裹挟,世俗化普泛性地信奉知识无限进步社会无限发展的时髦信念。 To say that Shen Congwen is pursuing modernity means that he was involuntarily caught up in the journey of life by the trend of development of modern capitalist world in the West and secularized universally believed in the fashionable conviction of unlimited development of the society.