民主與批判的美學人文主義如何可能：試論薩依德的人文主義

Is Aesthetic Humanism as Democracy and Criticism Possible: Edward Said's Humanism as an Example

The Edward Said intellectual legacy will be primarily political. But the last completed book Humanism and Democratic Criticism he wrote, allows us to situate this legacy in the larger philosophical setting of his humanism. The one discussion in my article is of an epistemological cast, Said believed that self-knowledge is unattainable without an equal degree of self-criticism. The other is an ethical argument, a more democratic form of humanism-one that aims to incorporate, emancipate, and enlighten-is attainable. Once-sacred literary canon that associated with Euro-centralism and even imperialism is now more likely to be ridiculed than revered. Therefore, Said proposed the return to philology and music as the supplement about aesthetics. Said contended that words are not merely passive reception figures but vital resistance agents. On the other hand, the ＂West-Eastern Divan＂ orchestra was an aim of combining the sharing of knowledge and comprehension between people from cultures that traditionally have been rivals. In this time of heightened contradiction between globalization and exclusiveness, is the critical, democratic even aesthetic humanism possible and still effective? This project tries to demonstrate his legacy that provides a persuasive case for humanistic education on our shared intellectual heritage.