Unit西方文化导论.pptxVIP

Unit西方文化导论第1页/共143页 Get Started_ mainGet StartedGet Started1. A General Introduction2. Focus In第2页/共143页 Get Started_1.1Get Started第3页/共143页 Get Started_1.1Get Started Modernism was born at the turn of the 20th century and swept many countries. Many social and psychological problems found expression in cultural and literary form, thus representing the real mood and emotion of the ordinary people in the West who were torn by countless troubles arising out of the social, political and cultural contradictions and clashes. At this juncture, the emergence of a number of schools of social ideology in the late 19th century, such as Freud’s theory of psycho-analysis, Bergson’s theory of intuitionalism as well as the seemingly irrational ideas of Schopenhauer and Nietzsche helped define and clarify the spiritual needs of those intellectuals. These ideological varieties further emancipated people’s mind and gave them both courage and direction to tap the new area of human knowledge and ideology.第4页/共143页 Get Started_1.2Get Started In a way the change of the cultural and intellectual climate in this period had something to do with romanticism and cultural trend of the time. More radical modes of creation appeared, first in poetry and then spread to other forms of writing and art. They were more rebellious, more radical, more opposed to tradition and social reality and more concerned with their own forms of subjective representation. Such a changed approach moved eventually into modernism. Symbolism as an aesthetic movement opened the way for the eventual arrival of modernism, a grand and complicated cultural movement taking form at the beginning of the 20th century. It included literature and art and embraced many schools of ideological rebellion and alternative forms of artistic representation. It marked the inception of a really new era in terms of cultural and intellectual development. 第5页/共143页 Get Started_2.1Get Started To understand the background