马克思主义与人道主义：第二届中英马克思主义美学双边论坛论文集-(第二届中英马克思主义美学双边论坛论文集)_王杰，（英）斯宾塞主编_9787511716217

　　2012年已经过去。这一年中人们经历了关于“世界末日”的恐惧，也体验了太阳照样升起，空气依旧清新的复杂感受。对于英国而言，成功地举办了第30届奥林匹克运动会，这是伦敦第三次举办奥运会。伦敦奥运会让我们感受到中国和英国的文化差异，也让我们重新思考人道主义。2012年4月10日我与朱立元教授、陈飞龙教授、胡亚敏教授、孙文宪教授、朱国华教授等一行15人动身赴曼彻斯特大学出席论坛的第二届年会。在伦敦转火车时，在King Cross Station车站与上海交通大学媒体设计学院的李亦中教授会面。李亦中教授带着两名学生到伦敦来拍《伦敦奥运会倒计时100天》的短片。李亦中教授告诉我，他很吃惊地发现，伦敦完全没有我们2008年奥运会前的激情四射，整个城市没有宣传奥运，甚至还有一些市民在发起“抵制奥运”。他们要找上一届伦敦奥运会的旧址，居然很难找到，因为许多人都不知道这样一个地方。看来中英两国在文化上的差异还真的很大。这种文化上的差异我想也会影响到对许多事物的看法，包括对本届论坛的主题“马克思主义与人道主义”的不同看法，这也是我们这一届论坛的参与者们所共同期待的。

　　I have become interested recently in .the apparent evaporation of the social incultural studies and critical theory. It could be that this is merely the anxiety of anunreconstructed humanist，for whom notions of the post-human，statements about theagency of objects，and discoveries of the neural and cognitive aspects of humanbehaviour are a step（or several steps） too far. Nevertheless， I think it is worthinvestigating this unease，and trying to make the case for a certain caution in relationto tendencies to abandon too hastily the solidities of cultural and sociological theory.One of the things I will consider in this essay is why these challenges to traditionalmethods and theories have been necessary（and valuable）-that is，what the limits ofcultural theory have been，and why scholars have turned to different approaches.I amtalking here about developments which might seem quite disparate： the tum to"affect";the（re） turn to phenomenology（and post-phenomenology）;actor-networktheory in sociology and science studies; theories of the post-human （human/animal，human/nature，human/technology）;theories of materiality; emphasis on the agency ofobjects; the tum to neuroscience in the humanities and social sciences; the insistenceon "presence" as an unmediated encounter（for example， with the work of art-seeGumbrecht 2004）; the foregrounding of the embodied nature of any act（even themost "intellectual" practices，such as reading-see Littau 2006）.This is indeed aneclectic list.But one finds constant overlaps and common meeting points-forexample，in a conference at the University of Manchester in February 2009，organisedby the ESRC-funded Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change，on " Materialisingthe subject： phenomenological and post-ANT objects in the social sciences" （three ofthe themes already contained in the title，and discussion at the conference too aboutcognitive science，neuroscience，and affect）.

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