The"New Liberal Arts"between the Old and New Systems:A Discussion Using"Cultural Studies"as an Example
Compared to the tremendous changes in Chinese society over the past forty years,the humanities have been noticeably slow to respond to these changes.For example,in the current widely used discipline classification catalog of the Ministry of Education,there are still no disciplines such as"gender studies""urban studies"and"cultural studies",which are already large and mature globally.Don't think that this is just a lag in updating discipline names.When the actual social changes have become huge and profound,and there is an urgent need for a large number of researchers to conduct extensive and in-depth analysis in a timely manner,in an academic field like ours that is accustomed to doing things according to discipline regulations,the lack of updates in discipline lists actually means that at least a large part of our academic and ideological activities are seriously disconnected from social reality.Not to mention,just as the lack of progress in science and engineering will inevitably hinder the progress of humanities,the sluggishness of humanities will also profoundly hinder the development of science and engineering.I even think that the obvious weakness of the broad liberal arts in fulfilling its academic and ideological responsibilities for social progress exposes a larger issue from one perspective:Is the cultural situation in China today seriously dragging down the entire social progress?The current situation of our humanities and its social consequences will naturally raise awareness throughout society.Our humanities must quickly change the current situation of being slow to respond to social changes and weak,and fulfill the knowledge and ideological responsibility of humanities for social progress through their own progress.This is the basic meaning of"new"in the"new humanities".In fact,understanding the urgent need for a"new liberal arts"in the context of social growth solely from an economic or technological perspective,or believing that the"new"of liberal arts lies in meeting the needs of economic and technological development from a digital perspective,itself confirms why the"new liberal arts"are so important:it is precisely because of the lack of basic humanistic knowledge and literacy that we cannot understand the new social form that has already formed a new demand for the progress of liberal arts,that we have such a narrow understanding of the"new"of the"new liberal arts".The reason for choosing this question is because there was an opportunity:Cultural Studies discipline of Shanghai University,to which the authors of this group of articles belong,has gone through twenty years since the establishment of the Center for Contemporary Cultural Studies in 2001,the establishment of the Program in Cultural Studies in 2005,and the establishment of master's and doctoral programs in cultural studies in 2010.From teaching to research,from paper publishing to online platform construction,from participating in the on-site construction of a positive culture in society,to carrying out international cooperation in various aspects,we have accumulated many positive experiences,as well as many unsuccessful lessons.This set of articles actually touches on a wide range of issues related to universities,academic humanities,teachers,and students is not singular.The analysis and judgment that unfolds from this also have many parts worth introducing.
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