A Study Of 20^th American War Fiction: A Culture Perspective

In the century of eighteen,Gernamy philosopher Kant indicated Damocles on humane spirit in Critique of Practical Reason. He pointed out there are two things, we more often think, they can perfuse new and messiness fear and praise: star field on head and moral principle in heart.1 With the development of modern technical civilization, it changed American social visage radically. It is not a insular rusticity republic in basic of agriculture economy. But it is developed industry important country with very force .The development of science and technology and flourish of substance is looked upon as a kind of special pressure at the same time."Historical throat is bowed down by collected fire-new strength abruptly.""archaic religion world of adoring the Virgin Mary is ended :new strength is dominating modern subsistence."2The new strength is science and technology logos we have said.Mordern science and technology logos are concepts, action and ideation which occident traditional rationalism marry with natural science after Revival of Letters. As a existent dimensionality of logos, science and technology logos is that main body carry through the capability of logic discursion beyond definite impersonal rules and action principia. Science and technology logos are according to the exist of matter and hold a illogical, limited world, it sometimes is in virtue of mathematic, experimental, logistic means to hold object world tightly. Huge technological changes influenced all nations, these nations of burgeon industrial strength are got many influences. Among the rest, America becomes"twenty multimillions horsepower"nation headmostly. As we known, from War Between the States to First World War, America came through a industrialization course in deepness and extent. Especially in after war ten years, American develops of economy flourish incessantly increased. In 1923-1929,these years are economy development, years which American often prided in gold times. Compare these Europe formidable groups which struggled pain at edge of economic breakdown, it came into being lively comparison. As scientist George Sutton once pointed out: science is our psychic centum and our civilized Centrum. It is our headspring of wisdom and vigor.1The modern production increment and its worked changes made people worship science and technology logos regretlessly. But G.Stein said frankly the coming new century has all kinds of hopes, others much more are close to despair. The despair came from interfluves of science and technology logos and literal humaniores and absolute advantage of science and technology logos. Literal spirit is according to humane as star and core. It is a kind of logos cognition, theories expound and practical criterions which people are capable of being. It includes realistic criterions people exist beyond these, and it is logos advance of humane spirit and worthiness. It brings into humane existence signification and ultimate worthiness, and beyond whole thinking means to perspective the limitless, extramundane world ,and start to quest for humane essence and existent ultimate meaning.Before modern industrial civilization, science and technology logos and literal spirit altogether adhered to divinity in condition of lowlife productivity, and melted into religion. They came true unification of orderliness and objective. Along with Revival of Lettersanddidacticism,humanmanaged Bacon—Descartes—Newton's instrument logos through three science and technology revolution initiated refulgent course of science and technology. science and technology logos corroborated its main body as unanswerable practiced capability. The main body got across reprimand, system and law to strengthen and through morality and religion to confirmation. Science and technology finally moved up a kind of new ideology and obtained sovereign station. In presence of it , hominine main body meaning cleared up in science and technology logos. Modern science and technology use brainpower, abstract space to concentrate humanity space, use all kinds of production to change humane liberty spirit, use harmonious of human and nature to harmonize affinity of individual existence and infinity of advance of standard of living."It spurred people to attend science and societies manage, and pricked up suffering consciousness before dominate course. These sensibilities behaved intensively in America, in America, modern course step on the juice. Technological development very much prompted, social contradiction became acuity increasingly."1American scholar David Griffon called desolation and loses of humane spirit home which alienation and stand facing each other of science and technology logos and literal spirit as bleak. The point means not only in nature, but also in whole world experience will do not occupy important station. So objective, value, ideal and feasibility are not important and have not freedom, creation, temporality and divinity. There are not exist criterion and truth, the whole shoot are ultimately without meaning.1Heidegger even considered. The state human get the key of the street is humane essential predicament and foreordination.How to realize contemporary interlocution and harmonious of science and technology logos and literal spirit has became main culture puzzledom occident modern development faces. As important part of twenty century American fictions, war fictions'value is consisted in surmount beyond traditional war literate. Novelist did not attended to oppose of the nameless flesh being and modern science crystal --modern arms and attend to express challenge of individual existence will in face of the representation of science and technology logos—mechanization rules. It spreads a best stage for puff and settle of conflict in different frame through theory lay.In First World War, Puritanism moralism system length by length fall apart by science and technology logos and literal spirit .The history development is coadjutant result of science and technology logos and literal spirit. But lose of God made American get into blankness of value, people lose to look after value support possibility and declare trend standing up to as an equal.Morden fictionist represented bewilderment from modern figure anxiety and conflict of realize and tradition.In Second World War, science and technology logos and literal spirit begin to stand facing each other in deed. science and technology logos thinking fashion has penetrate into all angle in modern live. Before huge matter fortune, people and everything are debased a kind of functionality part and lose its essence and independence. In war, science and technology logos embody symbolic persons and rules. It guaranteed progress of war, and challenge individual existent will.In Vietnam war, science and technology logos allied state will and gained legal dominion, became reason and basis".Nation regime intervened in produce and exchange, pure technology means existed and inclined ton combine of science and technology. So, science and technology gradually became regnant tools of politics, economy, culture, and social living, became emancipator shackle. The ideological pervasion not only aimed at this nation, but also different nations and culture.Twenty century war fictions can not solve this contradiction. But they had to face desolation and loses of humane spirit home which alienation and stand facing each other. Perhaps, according to Heidegger said in the end which modern technology nihilism developed, the hope human walked out crisis emerged as the times require.