WhoRuinedtheHumanities(中文翻译)..doc

人文学科之没落，幸焉？不幸焉？? 2013-7-29 08:02|?发布者:?疯子|?查看: 5974|?评论: 0 摘要: LEE SIEGELYouve probably heard the baleful reports. The number of college students majoring in the humanities is plummeting, according to a big study released last month by the American Academy of Ar ... LEE SIEGEL LEE SIEGEL ? ? Youve probably heard the baleful reports. The number of college students majoring in the humanities is plummeting, according to a big study released last month by the American Academy of Arts Sciences. The news has provoked a flood of high-minded essays deploring the development as a symptom and portent of American decline. 你大概已经听说过那些惨不忍睹的调查报告。上月美国人文与科学院(American Academy of Arts Sciences)发布的一项大型研究结果显示，主修人文学科的大学生人数在直线下降。这一消息引发了海量评论文章，这些文章站在道德制高点上，慨叹人文专业学生的减少是美国衰落的迹象和征兆。 ? ? But there is another way to look at this supposed revelation (the number of humanities majors has actually been falling since the 1970s). Michael Kirkham但我们也可以从另外一个角度看待这一所谓的发现（人文专业大学生人数其实从20世纪70年代就开始下降了）。 ? ? The bright side is this: The destruction of the humanities by the humanities is, finally, coming to a halt. No more will literature, as part of an academic curriculum, extinguish the incandescence of literature. No longer will the reading of, say, King Lear or D.H. Lawrences Women in Love result in the flattening of these transfiguring encounters into just two more elements in an undergraduate career″the onerous stuff of multiple-choice quizzes, exam essays and homework assignments. 光明的一面是：人类对人文的戕害终于要告一段落了。作为学术课程的文学不会再扑灭炽热的文学之火。阅读《李尔王》(King Lear)或D.H.劳伦斯(D.H. Lawrence)的《恋爱中的女人》(Women in Love)不会再从让灵魂升华的邂逅沦为本科生涯的另外两个元素──成为多选测验、考试论文和作业中让人头疼的内容。 ? ? The disheartening fact is that for every college professor who made Shakespeare or Lawrence come alive for the lucky few″the British scholar Frank Kermode kindled Shakespeare into an eternal flame in my head″there were countless others who made the reading of literary masterpieces seem like two hours in the periodontists chair. In