无论是在西方还是东方,提起颓度(decadence)一词,人们首先想到的便是“为艺术而艺术”的口号,以及王尔德(Oscard Wilde)和葛悌埃(The Ophile Gautier)等人的耸人听闻的作品。本文则从西方传统文论出发,探讨颓废这一文学概念的渊源及发展。作者认为,尽管颓废文学的某些论点和口号貌似激进,实际上它滥觞于西方传统中有关文质关系的讨论,是对传统文学现念的一个挑战和修正。 Whether in the West or the East, the term decadence is mentioned, the first thing that comes to mind is the slogan “Art for Art,” and others like Oscard Wilde and The Ophile Gautier The sensational work. This article starts from the western traditional literary theory and explores the origin and development of the literary concept of decadence. The author believes that although some of the arguments and slogans of decadent literature look like radical, in fact it originated from the discussion of the relationship between languages ​​and traditions in the Western tradition, which is a challenge and revision of the traditional literature.