摘要
作为20世纪末在西方兴起的一个新的史学流派,"大历史"试图从宇宙"大爆炸"讲起,以多个尺度考量宇宙、地球和人类的历史演进,努力整合人类的知识,尤其是弥合史学叙述中人文科学与自然科学久已分离的残损局面。在当今人类知识细碎化的形势下,"大历史"的跨学科努力显得弥足珍贵。"大历史"对人类未来命运的关注有助于青年一代认清自我,形成正确的世界观。但"大历史"显然是从超越人类的角度审视人类,其核心概念如"能量流"、"复杂性"、"金凤花原理"、"集体知识"等虽有高屋建瓴的气势,但直接用于界说人类社会的起伏变故,人的情感和信仰等问题便显得天真和乏力。
As a new emergent school of history in the West in the late 20th century,Big History is still being constructed.It tries to tell the larger and multi-graded story of the Cosmos,planet earth and all humanity starting with the ＂Big Bang＂,thus offering a grand synthesis of all human knowledge,which basically transforms the long-term separation of humanities,social sciences and natural sciences in historical narratives.The transdisciplinary endeavor made by the Big History makes itself worthwhile in the current context of fragmentation of knowledge.Big History＇s concern for the future of humanity is also valuable in that it can help young people both to realize their place in the world and to form a correct world outlook.Yet based on this novel approach,Big History is obviously transcending humanity in order to discover humanity,and while its core concepts such as ＂energy flow＂,＂complexity＂,＂the Goldilocks principle＂,＂collective learning＂,etc,are scientifically pertinent,it is hard to lend themselves directly to definitions of the vicissitudes of human societies,gushing emotions within human individuals,and the fervency of faith and beliefs among peoples,etc.It is possible that Big History contributes more to rekindling historians＇ macroscopic vision and multilayered historical constructions.
出处
《史学理论研究》
CSSCI
北大核心
2012年第4期49-59,159,共11页
Historiography Bimonthly
