我们经历了一个盲目求新的时代。然而有一天,当我重读歌德,无意间接连发现T.S.艾略特的“历史感”和维特根斯坦的“凡是不能说的都应保持沉默”的出处时,我惊讶了。当然,我不会因此而抹平后两者的意义,但正是在这样的时刻,我发现以前曾占据了我们全部注意力的“现代主义”的世界再一次地缩小了:它不过是历史的一部分,或是历史的一个变项。 We have gone through a blind new age. One day, however, I was surprised when I read Goethe again and inadvertently discovered the origins of T.S. Eliot’s “sense of history” and Wittgenstein’s “anyone who can not say anything should remain silent.” Of course, I will not be able to smooth out the meaning of the two, but it is at this moment that I find the world of “modernism”, which once occupied all our attention, narrowed again: it is nothing more than history Part of history, or a variable in history.