被称作“批评的世纪”的20世纪已经过去。如果这一个世纪的批评话语的空前繁盛还不足以成为某种更大危机的直接表征的话,那么它至少也应该使人们更加关注批评话语自身的存在问题,也即批评自身的“本体论”问题。事实上,这个问题正因我们所面对的后现代状态而变得至关重要。正如利奥塔的描述。对于一切元叙事的怀疑使得批评失去了在形而上学规 The twentieth century, known as the “century of criticism,” is over. If the unprecedented prosperity of critical discourse in this century is not enough to become a direct characterization of some kind of greater crisis, it should at least give more attention to the question of the existence of critical discourse itself, namely criticism of its own “ontology” "problem. In fact, this issue is of crucial importance due to the postmodern conditions we face. As Lyotard’s description. Suspicion of all meta-narratives makes criticism lose its metaphysical norms