常州今文经学:历史语境与内在理路

The Changzhou New Text School of Confucianism: the Historical Context and the Intrinsic Logic

常州学派是清代今文经学复兴的肇始者,但其独立的历史地位却受到研究者们的忽略甚至遮蔽。它或者被戊戌变法的政治史叙事追溯为维新运动的政治思想的远源,或者被以礼制判断今古的学术史叙事化约为纯正今文学诞生的前史。只有回到当时的具体历史情景,并深入到其文本的内在理路之中,常州今文经学独特的政治社会语境与永恒的思想价值才能被重新凸显出来。

Traditionally, the Changzhou New Text School of Confucianism is either regarded as the distant origin of the political ideology of Wu-Xu Reform of 1898 in the narrative of political history, or is reduced as the remainder of the orthodox New Text School in the narrative of academic history. The unique political-social context and eternal philosophical value of the Changzhou School can not be redis-covered unless we strive to reconstruct its specific historical background and go deep into the intrinsic logic of the text of the School.