“天高皇帝近”:一个重要的中国思想史命题——雷戈《秦汉之际的政治思想与皇权主义》评介

lmperial Power Reaches Everywhere:An Important Thesis in Chinese Ideological History——A Comment on Lei Ge's Political Ideology and Imperial Power in the Transition from Qin to Han Dynasties

雷戈所著《秦汉之际的政治思想与皇权主义》一书,认为从秦朝到汉初的思想史发展阶段是中国思想史上皇权主义意识形态的生成和确立时期,并将其概括为"后战国时代";采用独特的"历史-思想"研究法,从政治制度、官场规则和官吏的政治生活中,挖掘特定时期的政治思想共识,为政治思想史研究开辟了新的路径,并扩大了思想史的资料范围;认为秦汉时期生成的皇权主义秩序,把"天高皇帝远"的制度现实变为"天高皇帝近"的观念实存,实现了对人们思想的可控性,从此,思想成为皇权可以控制和规范的领域,达到了有效的思想专制。这是秦汉以降中国思想史发展的基本特征。该书在研究方法的创新和思想深度的开掘上,都做出了独到的贡献。

Lei Ge＇s monograph Political Ideology and Imperial Power in the Transition from Qin to Han Dynasties holds that the ideological development in the transitional period from Qin to Han dyansties was a crucial period in the emergence and establishment of imperial power, and calls it the post-Warring-States era. The book uses the method of historyqdeology to dig out the political-ideological features of the time, from the sapects of political system, regulations in official life and the political lives of the officials, thus opens a new path for the research in the history of political ideology, and enlarges the material fields of ideological history studies. The author holds that the imperial power order generated in this period has changed the systematic reality of ＂imperial power reaches everywhere＂into an ideological reality of that, actualizing the practical control of people＇s ideology, henthforth ideology became the realm controled and regulated by the imperial power, and ideological absolutism was realized since then and became the basic feature in the development of the Chinese ideological history. The book has contributed a lot both in the innovation of research method and in the depth of thinking.