现代童年是现代社会的文化标志之一,也是现代文明及其现代性事业的核心符号之一。在现代西方社会,童年的观念一方面成了启蒙现代性借以实现其启蒙理想的文化基点,另一方面则被同时寄予了审美现代性批判的文化深意,由此体现了现代性的双重进程与双重传统。现代性进程推动了面向现实童年的研究,其研究结果则反过来促进着现代性的建构与自我反思。 Modern childhood is one of the cultural symbols of modern society, but also one of the core symbols of modern civilization and its modern undertaking. In modern Western society, the concept of childhood became a cultural basis for enlightening modernity to realize its ideal of enlightenment. On the other hand, it was at the same time placed on cultural connotation of criticism of aesthetic modernity, thus reflecting the dual process of modernity and Double tradition. The process of modernity has promoted the research of realistic childhood, the result of which has in turn promoted the construction and self-reflection of modernity.