City·Time And Space·Existence

In the developing process of facing modernity and post-modernity, city is becoming the most principal living and developing space of human being day by day. There have been more research of city culture in the western, and the early representative character was German sociologist named Simmel. To many sociologists's profound impression, he considered that the city life is very different from the village life on many aspect of the rhythm, frequency and range of human communication's space. It is about to affect the sense perception, mentality and behavior of people, so it will lead to city personality differ from village personality. The article "life of the City and spirit " has been generally acknowledged the fountainhead of city's reaserchs. Now the major question for study of humanities facing is the coordinative development of society's various departments and the problems of people's integrated spiritual situation, existent surroundings and social fairness behind it in the Chinese regional modernization's process on city nucleus. We must observe and study thoroughly that our culture only become in the city or belong to the city at last. Which relation is they and city itself, and which relation is city culture with modernity and post-modernity, which is the question to be waited to study. From the becoming of method of Culture studies, we are able to study the case on a certain city, and also get to work on Chinese city compared with Western city, and analyze the deep relations of city culture's symbol on time, space, spirit and existence with modernity and post-modernity from metaphysical angle, too. The article will get to work from the fundamental question, cite more Chinese cities, and analyze the deep relations of modernity and post-modernity with a city as a cultural carrier at essence from metaphysical angle.Modern city is the material entity and spiritual rampart differentiated village produce method, and it gathers politics, economy and culture in an entirety. Modern city is the concentration camp of human being's modernization style of living and the exhibition region of human being's modern civilization. Modernity and post-modernity have emerged fusion in cities, because of many reasons. One is the industrial revolution which was starting point of modern civilization promoted the developing process of urbanization mostly. Second is enlightenment of the legal principle city regards as the basic that modernity present in cities. Third is modernization is decided by people's modernization, and "peasant" become "citizen", which is the premise of achievement people's modernization. The content which is city culture's time, space, spirit and existence is exhibited on the basic.In the modern city culture, the time nature's expressions are the diachronic nature as historical theme, ahead orientation and standardized appearance, then tempo become its symbol, but it caused two results finally: One is instrument rationality and industrialization development brought about city features of high degree's materializion and modernization. But the other is tempo brought about a kind of instantaneous sense of modern citizen, thus it caused mental tension and perplexed sense. Now the space nature's expressions charming contrast in the constitution of structuralizion and distancalizion each other. The spiritual expressions regard the city inner being of individual subjectivity as the mental essence, and regard the contradictive and paradoxical city language as the spiritual symbol.In the post-modern city culture, the time nature's expressions regard the rapid expansion of "Leisure Time" as the resource, and regard the time freedom of "Time Tunnel" as the symbol, thereby which are transmiting time conception of post-modern cities. The space expression transmit the sense of unreal space and fragment space in movies and television media and electronic media which are brought by electronic technique. With the collapse of post-modern subjectivity philosophy, the city culture regards game's text as the existent essence, and regards deconstructional action and constructioned consume as the existent symbol, thus which are demonstrating the interlocking relations of post-modernity and city culture.