本文为钱中文先生在“文艺学与文化研究”学术研讨会 (中国社会科学院文学研究所、《文学评论》编辑部、云南大学中文系合办 ,2 0 0 2年 5月 )上的主题发言。钱先生在文中对“文化全球化”这一热点问题作了展望 ,并对“新理性精神”下的文学理论建设提出了自己的构想。本刊予以刊发 ,希望能够引起国内学术界对这些重要问题的进一步探讨。本文为会议记录稿 ,未经作者本人审订 This article is Mr. Qian Zhongwen’s keynote speech on “Academic Seminar of Literature and Art and Cultural Studies” (Institute of Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Editorial Department of “Literary Criticism”, Department of Chinese, Yunnan University, May 2002) . In the article, Mr. Qian made a prospect of the hot issue of “cultural globalization” and put forward his own ideas for the construction of literary theory under the “new rational spirit.” This issue is published, hoping to arouse the domestic academic community to further explore these important issues. This is a record of the meeting, without the author’s own review