摘要
马修?阿诺德是19世纪英国著名的文化批评家。在现代社会工业革命和民主运动的洪流中,他以文化抵制个人主义和工具主义。在他看来文化就是最优秀的言论和思想,能够树立一个共同的理想和权威,从而维护国家的整体性。其文化理论属于人文主义传统范畴,意在培养一个可以领导国家的有教养的中产阶级。阿诺德开创了从文化视野展开社会批评的传统,成为20世纪文化主义的先驱。
Abstract
Matthew Arnold is a famous British cultural critic in the19th century .In the current of industrial revolution and democratic movement of modern society ,he resists individualism and in-strumentalism by culture .In his view of point ,culture is the best of what bas been said and thought ,which could build up a common ideal and authority ,by which the unity of a state could be protected .His theory of culture belongs to the humanistic traditional category ,which aims to cultivate a cultured middle class who could lead the state .As the forerunner of culturalism in the 20th century ,Arnold starts the tradition of social criticism from the perspective of culture .