“人生如旅,何须匆忙”:人文主义、多元主义与犹太想象

• 作 者: 郑丽 丹尼尔·施瓦茨
• 机 构: 北京航空航天大学外国语学院;康乃尔大学
• 出 处: 外国文学研究
• 发表日期: 2021年5期
• 关键词: Schwarz humanism pluralism philosophy of reading modern art and literature a com

丹尼尔·施瓦茨是康乃尔大学弗雷德里克·惠顿英文教授,被公认为一名教学名师、极具影响力的文学评论家和重要的公共知识分子.他丰硕的著述涵盖了广泛的主题,从约瑟夫·康拉德、詹姆斯·乔伊斯和华莱士·史蒂文斯到批评理论、大屠杀和纽约市文化.此外,他还定期为《赫芬顿邮报》撰写有关媒体和高等教育的博客,并在世界各地发表演讲,1993年在北京大学以客座学者身份任教.郑丽代表《外国文学研究》对施瓦茨教授进行了访谈,话题包括他的人本主义和多元主义的批评方式、阅读的哲学、现代艺术和现代文学之间的联系、大屠杀研究和犹太研究.施瓦茨认为阅读是一种旅行,从中我们可以探索在我们自己的和不同的文化中,别人是如何生活和思考的.施瓦茨坚信,没有什么能比目前肆虐全球的新冠病毒更能说明,我们是休戚与共的“命运共同体”,互相依存.最后,施瓦茨感恩他的教师和学者生活给自己带来的机遇,并用自己喜爱的C.P.卡瓦菲的诗歌《伊萨卡》中的诗句给了我们一句忠告:“人生如旅,何须匆忙.”“,”Daniel R.Schwarz,Frederic J.Whiton Professor of English Literature at Cornell University,has been regarded as a master teacher,an influential literary critic,and a leading public intellectual.His prolific publications cover a wide variety of subjects,from Joseph Conrad,James Joyce,and Wallace Stevens to critical theory,the Holocaust,reading and teach-ing of literature,and New York City culture.Also,he has blogged regularly on the media and higher education for Huffington Post,and lectured all over the world,including teaching as a guest scholar at Peking University in 1993.On Behalf of Foreign Literature Studies,Zheng Li interviewed Schwarz on a series of issues,such as his humanistic and pluralistic critical approach,his philosophy of reading,the connection between modern art and modern litera-ture,Holocaust Studies,and Jewish Studies.Schwarz sees reading as a kind of travel in which we explore how others live and think in both our own and different cultures.He believes that nothing makes clearer than the worldwide pandemic,Covid-19,that we are all united in“a community of common destiny”,interdependent on one another.Finally,he expresses his gratefulness for the opportunities his life as teacher and scholar has presented and,with the lines from one of his favorite poems,C.P.Cavafy\'s“Ithaka”,offers us a piece of advice,“Don\'t hurry the journey at all.”