有感于知识分子似乎已自愿放弃了批判意识 ,沦为思想侏儒的状况 ,金观涛和刘青峰２０００年初的新著《中国现代思想的起源》指出 ,二十世纪末的知识界是如此侏儒化 :不仅十九世纪那样的思想巨人不复存在 ,二十世纪上半叶那样的行动巨人亦无影无踪 ,甚至连横跨几个学术领域的雄? Feeling that the intellectuals have voluntarily given up their critical consciousness and reduced themselves to thinking gnomes, Jin Guantao and Liu Qingfeng’s new book The Origins of Modern Chinese Thought in early 2000 pointed out that the intellectual world at the end of the twentieth century was so dwarfed: not only The giants of the nineteenth century ceased to exist and the giants of action in the first half of the twentieth century disappeared, even across several academic fields.