工业革命以来,教育领域人文文化与科学文化的分裂对立问题引发学界和社会的广泛关注和讨论,而这两种文化的对立性早已根植于人类在探索自然和规训自身过程中物性与灵性的分野。百年来,中外学界一直努力探寻弥合两种文化的方式及第三种文化可能存在的形式,并从学科建设角度讨论两种文化的沟通连接方式以消除两种文化的隔阂。21 世纪数字技术特别是元宇宙、人工智能相关技术的出现和应用,创造了“第三种文化”的雏形。数字技术将人类社会的人文信息与自然物质要素在数字空间相连,形成实现人文与科学协同共进的新型空间,建构了实现学科融合的现实路径。未来如何在数字文化语境中实现两种文化的对话和融合将是新文科建设的突破口。文化产业既是文化与科技发展交叉的典型领域,也是数字文化应用的前沿,可作为新文科建设的试验田来探索未来新文科建设的基本样态和可行路径。
Reconstructing the "New Liberal Arts": A Dialogue Between Two Cultures in the Context of Digital Technology
Fu Caiwu, Ming Yan(Wuhan University)
Abstract Since the Industrial Revolution, the split and opposition between humanistic culture and scientific culture in the field of education has begun to arouse widespread attention and discussion in academic circles and society at large. However, the antagonism between these two cultures has long been rooted in the division between physical nature and spirituality that has emerged in the process of human exploration of nature and discipline of itself. Over the past hundred years, Chinese and foreign academic circles have been trying to explore ways to bridge the two cultures and the possible forms of the third culture, and discuss the communication and connection methods and integration channels of the two cultures from the perspective of discipline construction to eliminate the gap between the two cultures. The emergence and popularization of digital technology in the 21st century, especially the metaverse, has created the prototype of the "third culture". Digital technologies, connecting the humanistic information of human society with the natural material elements in the digital space, have brought about a new type of metaverse space that enables the synergy between humanities and disciplines, and explored a realistic path for the integration of humanities and sciences. In the future, how to realize the dialogue and integration of the two cultures in the context of digital culture will be a breakthrough in the construction of "New Liberal Arts". As a typical intersection of culture and science as well as the frontier of digital culture application, cultural industry may well be used as a "test field" to explore the basic form and feasible path of "New Liberal Arts" construction in the future.
Key words scientific culture; humanities and culture; digital technologies; New Liberal Arts; cultural industries
■作者简介 傅才武,历史学博士,武汉大学国家文化发展研究院教授、博士生导师;湖北 武汉 430072;明 琰,武汉大学国家文化发展研究院博士研究生。