“新史学”的范式意义:对杨念群“感觉主义”的思考

Paradigm's Significance of New History

无论是概念主义还是感觉主义,都给史学研究带来了巨大的推动,它们都可以作为范式而引领史学的发展趋势。然而,在具体的实践领域,却产生了诸多问题,尽管感觉主义在发掘现象的同时更加关注了内涵,但是感觉主义如其所指,尚带有浓厚的主观性,历史的细微之处仍很难把握,无论是在理论的建构还是实践的操作方面仍需继续深入,从范式的高度对史学研究予以指导。

Both the conceptualism and the sensationalism has significantly promoted the historic research. Both of them can be viewed as paradigms that have pointed out the directions for future historic research. In practice, however, both methods give rise to many unresolved problems. For instance, recent researches that follows the sensationalism paradigm put more emphases on the intension while trying to explain the phenomena However, this approach is still quite subjective and difficult to get to the historic details. The application of the sensationalism in historic studies still needs to be improved both in theory and in practice so that it can really be treated as a paradigm that can guide the historic research.