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赛伊德《文化与帝国主义》导言中,讲到他所说的文化,主要是有两个方面的含义。其一是指一切相对独立于经济、社会、政治领域的活动,就像形形式式描述、传播和表现的艺术,时常是以审美的形式出现。故而它所追求的主要目标之一就是快感。其二则取马休·阿诺德1860年的说法,以文化网罗起每个社会中最好的东西,让人在一片光辉中观照自身,观照自己的民族、社会和传统,究其实质,却是在给血腥强暴、铜臭气味十足的都市社会生活披上一块遮羞布。不消说,文
In his introduction to “Culture and Imperialism,” Syed spoke of what he meant by culture, which had mainly two meanings. The first is that all activities that are relatively independent of the economic, social and political fields are like the art of formal description, communication and expression, often in aesthetic form. So one of the main goals it pursues is pleasure. The second is Matthew Arnold’s 1860 assertion that the best of everything in every society is culturally mesmerized, and people look upon themselves in a glory and contemplate their own national, social and traditions. The essence is In the bloody violence, the smell of copper stinky urban social life put on a fig leaf. Needless to say, the text