近年沸沸扬扬的文化大讨论,已经转趋深入。现在从新的视角审视这场讨论,我们不难发现,导致文化讨论中的情绪化、简单化、政治化等缺陷的一个十分重要的原因,是文化理论准备的不足。郭齐勇同志的新著《文化学概论》的出版,正是对这种不足的弥补。细览全书,我们感到郭著有如下值得充分肯定的价值和特点: 一、提出了一个较为科学的文化定义人所共知,国内外迄今有数百种文化定义,流派纷呈,莫衷一是。郭著站在马克思主义文化观的立场,对泰勒的描述性定义、康德等人的价值论定义、马林诺夫斯基的功能性定义、索罗金的规 In recent years, the heated discussion on culture has been deepening. Now, looking at this discussion from a new perspective, we can easily find out that the very important reason leading to the defects of emotionalization, simplification and politicization in cultural discussions is the lack of preparations for cultural theory. Comrade Guo Qianyong’s new book, “Introduction to Culture,” is precisely the remedy of this deficiency. Throughout the book, we feel Guo has the following values ​​and characteristics that deserve to be fully affirmed: First, it is well known that a more scientific definition of culture is known. There are hundreds of cultural definitions so far both at home and abroad. Guo stood on the position of Marxist cultural view, the descriptive definition of Taylor, the definition of value of Kant and others, the definition of function of Malinowski,