英译汉 preface to culture of narcissism
Hardly more than a quarter-century 25年前亨利露西就声称美国时代到after Henry Luce proclaimed “the 来,时至今日,美国人的信心早已跌American century”, American 落谷底。
confidence has fallen to low ebb.
Those who recently dreamed of world 曾几何时,有人大作主宰世界的美国power now despair of governing the 梦,如今对控制纽约都一筹莫展了。city of New York. Defeat in Vietnam, 越战惨遭失败,经济每况愈下,自然economic stagnation, and the 资源枯竭在即,这一些使得上层社会impending exhaustion of natural 孕育着悲观情绪。
resources have produced a mood of
pessimism in higher circles, which
spreads through the rest of society as
people lose faith in their leaders. The 其他的资本主义国家也在劫难逃。 same crisis of confidence grips other
capitalist countries as well. In Europe, 在欧洲,共产党力量与日俱增,法西the growing strength of communist 斯运动死灰复燃,恐怖主义此起彼parties, the revival of fascist 伏,这些都用不同的形式证明政权软movements, and a wave of terrorism 弱无能,传统也即将消耗殆尽。 all testify, in different ways, to the
weakness of established regimes and to
the exhaustion of established tradition.
Even Canada, long a bastion of stolid 加拿大一直是资本主义社会的可靠bourgeois dependability, now faces in 堡垒,现如今面临魁北克的分裂运the separatist movement in Quebec a 动,将会直接威胁到国家的生死存threat to its very existence as a nation. 亡。
The international dimensions of 国际社会缺乏信心,但这一切不能归the current malaise indicate that it can 咎于美国勇气的缺失。 not be attributed to an American failure
of nerve. Bourgeois society seems 世界各地的资本主义社会已经江郎everywhere to have used up its store of 才尽,再也拿不出建设性的意见。 constructive ideas. It has lost both the 他既没有能力也没有意愿来面对这capacity and the will to confront the 来势汹汹的重重困难。 difficulties that threaten to overwhelm
it. The political crisis of capitalism 资本主义的政治危机折射出西方文reflects a general crisis of western 化的总体危机,这种总体危机
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示人culture, which reveals itself in a 们普遍对现代历史进程的茫然无知,pervasive despair of understanding the 同时也无法走向理性的方向。 course of modern history or of
subjecting it to rational direction.
Liberalism, the political theory of the 自由主义曾经是上升资本主义的政ascendant bourgeois, long ago lost the 治理论,而如今在这个福利国家和跨capacity to explain the events in the 国公司里,早已失去了解释这个世界world of welfare state and the 的能力。又没有其他理论取而代之。 multinational corporation; nothing has
taken its place. Politically bankrupt, 自由主义不仅在政治上宣告破产,在
思想上也宣告破产。liberalism is intellectually bankrupt as well. The sciences it has fostered, once 自由主义孕育了科学,这些科学信心confident of their ability to dispel the 十足,有能力驱走中世纪的黑暗,而darkness of the Ages, no longer 现在他们宣称的各种现象,再也无法provide satisfactory explanations of the 提供满意的答复。
phenomena they profess to elucidate.
Neoclassical economic theory can not 新古典主义经济理论再也无法解释explain the coexistence of 失业和通货膨胀并存的现象, unemployment and inflation; sociology 社会学企图为现代社会勾画整体蓝retreats from the attempts to outline a 图,如今也打了退堂鼓, general theory of modern society;
academic psychology retreats from the 传统心理学究再也无法面对费洛伊challenge of Fraud into the 德的挑战,而去玩弄一些心理学上的measurement of trivia. The natural 细枝末节,自然科学曾夸夸其谈,如sciences, having made exaggerated 今也匆忙宣布已无法为社会问
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提claims for themselves, now hasten to 供灵丹妙药。
announce that science offers no
miracle cures for social problems.