“批评”一词蕴含着非常丰富的内容。比如,在勃列日涅夫时代的东欧,它可以是政府控制戏剧作品生死存亡的一把利剑;而在符号学批评看来,批评就是对作品本身进行客观分析,不涉及对其的价值判断。让我们暂抛开种种“批评”之争,来看一下艺术家彼得·布鲁克(Peter Brook)是怎样看待这个问题的: 我们生活在一个惧怕价值判断的时代;我们甚至自以为,如果少给出一些评判的话,我们会在某种程度上更优 The term “criticism” contains a very rich content. For example, in the Brezhnev-era eastern Europe, it could be a government sword that controlled the survival of theatrical works. In semiotic criticism, criticism was an objective analysis of the work itself and did not involve value judgments . Let us put aside the various “critical” battles to see how artist Peter Brook viewed the issue: We live in an age of fear of value judgments; we even assume that if less, Judgments, we will be better in some ways