《格列佛游记》的意图——对慧骃国故事的一种解读  

The Intention of Gulliver's Travels——An Explanation for the Story of the Country of the Houyhnhnms

作　　者：洪涛[1] 

机构地区：[1]复旦大学国际关系与公共事务学院

出　　处：《政治思想史》2015年第3期1-29,197,共29页Journal of the History of Political Thought

摘　　要：斯威夫特的小说《格列佛游记》写于1721年,英国资产阶级革命胜利之后30年,属于反省现代政治的最早一批文献。其第三、第四部分是整部书的核心。第四部分即慧骃国故事,向来又被认为是斯威夫特社会政治理想的体现。本文试图表明,慧骃国故事既不是古代精神的象征,也不是理想社会的体现,而是一种针对当时某些自然状态学说的戏仿,斯威夫特的真正用意在于揭示古今政治之异同及其根源,并从事于一种旨在人的自我教育的想象式的文学写作。Jonathan Swift's novel,Gulliver's Travels,was written in 1721,thirty years after the British Bourgeois Revolution.It is one of the first documents which give the critical eyes on modern politics.Part III &IV are the core of the whole novel,and the story of the country of the Houyhnhnms is always regarded as the social and political ideal of Swift.This paper argues that the society of the Houyhnhnms does not represent the ancient spirit,nor is the ideal society of Swift.In deed,it is a parody of some kinds of the theory of natural state in the 17 th century,while the true intention of Swift is to pointing out the difference between the ancient and the modern politics and its origins,and providing an imaginative litevary work aimed for the self-education of human being.

关 键 词：斯威夫特 《格列佛游记》 自然状态 现代政治 

分 类 号：D091[政治法律—政治学]