浅析人类社会现代性的起源与发展——以19世纪殖民主义下亚洲、南美洲、非洲为例

On the Origin and Development of Modernity in Human Society—A Case Study of Asia, South America and Africa under Colonialism in the 19th Century

摘要: 从传统观点看，欧洲科学革命和启蒙运动促成了人类社会现代性的产生。然而，面对人类社会的现代性，传统的欧洲中心论日益彰显出其缺乏全球性视角的弊端。本文从“现代”及“现代性”的概念着手，通过梳理其发展的历史过程，找到启蒙运动在现代性产生中的作用及意义。同时通过19世纪殖民主义下的国家现代性萌发的历程，引出“现代性”的概念，通过分析殖民者与被殖民者之间的辩证互动效应，以及这些效应是如何引发现代主义和现代主义运动的高潮，找到了全球现代性的根源。

Abstract: In the point of traditional perspectives, the European Science Revolution and the Enlightenment formatted the modernity of human society. Yet, in the face of modernity in human society, the tradi-tional Eurocentric points of view seem to be lack of global consideration. The emergence of moder-nity of human societies had an inseparable relationship to the colonialism in the late 19th century. This paper cites the concept of “modernity” and “colonialism”, finding the origin of global modernity through analyzing the dialectical mutual effects between the colonizers and the colonized and how these effects provoked the upsurge of the modernism and the modernist movements.