评梅棹忠夫“文明的生态史观”

Comments on “The Historical View of Civilization from the View of Ecology” by Umesao Tadao

日本著名学者梅棹忠夫提出的“文明的生态史观”影响巨大,为认识和研究人类文明的演进,特别是现代化的进程,提供了一个新的视角。但是,从历史学的角度加以检证,“文明的生态史观”存在许多漏洞,作为现代化的一种模式不能成立,作为一种代表性的日本文化论也具有过分拔高日本文化的倾向,这是我们所不能苟同的。

The influence of “the historical view of civilization from the view of ecology”, raised by the well-known Japanese scholar Umesao Tadao, was massive. It provides a new angle for cognition and research of the evolution of human civilization, especially for modernization. However, inspecting from the aspect of history, such a view has many flaws. As a mode of modernization, it is not convincing; as a representational Japanese cultural theory, it tends to over-glorify the Japanese culture,which is hard for us to agree to.