摘要
This paper engages Raymond Williams’organicist vision of culture,a framework that portrays culture as a growing whole shaped by shared experience.While Williams applies it to critique the fragmentation wrought by industrial capitalism and advocates achieving the“Long Revolution”of culture and society through collective nurturing,this paper explores the tensions within his emphasis on unity and common growth.Williams’holistic framework tends to downplay the conflicts and inequalities among the constituent parts of culture,and his metaphor of growth,though evocative,implies a utopian teleological view of history,neglecting structural antagonisms such as colonialism.By probing these tensions,this paper refines Williams’vision,seeking a cultural framework that balances his humanist aspirations with a nuanced understanding of power,contestation,and the complexities of cultural transformation.
