Abstract
The new literature relies on the form of "natural person" to pursue the ideals of "self" and "freedom", which indeed promoted the historical progress of Chinese society. However, this type of absolute "self" and "freedom" also directly destabilized the ethical relationship in traditional culture, thus making people's behavior disordered. Once the "self" was placed above society and broke away from the control of social moral norms, the opposition between the "self" and society emerged, and the "self" eventually fell into ideological confusion as it could no longer exist. For new literature, the shift from blind optimism to rational thinking in order to understand "individual liberation" was very complicated, which left us many experiences and lessons worth serious summarization.
First Page
177
Last Page
185
Recommended Citation
Song, Jianhua. 2019. "The Paradox of "Self": New Literature's Ethical Problems of "Individual Liberation"." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 39, (4): pp.177-185. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol39/iss4/19
