论环境复古主义

Research about Environmental Revivalism

复古主义是人类挥之不去的情结。传统时代盛行社会复古主义,进入工业时代后又兴起了环境复古主义。环境复古主义与环保主义关系密切,两者都对环境史产生了重要的影响。环境史要健康发展,就必须对环境复古主义的功过进行辩证分析。环境史学者要避免过强的环境复古主义倾向,就必须规避衰败论的学术理念与叙述模式。

Revivalism is a lingering feeling ,of human. The social revivalism was prevalent in the traditional time, and the environmental revivalism was popular in the industrial age. Closely related, environmental revivalism and environmentalism have a significant impact on the environmental history. For the healthy development of environmental history, we should make a dialectic analysis of merits and demerits of the environmental revivalism. In order to avoid too strong environmental revivalist tendency, environmental historians must avoid the academic philosophy and narrative mode of the decay theory.