全球概念史:文明、教化与情感

A global history of concepts:Civilization,civilizing and emotions

概念史家认为,语言是我们与世界之间的媒介,语言概念并非独立于所指实体的超然存在,而是社会变迁的参与方与指示器。近年勃兴的全球史与纠缠史(entangled history)则对此提出了挑战。借由跨国情感史对"文明有礼"这一概念的多年研究,本文反思了概念史学的这些基本预设。作者首先以纠缠史理论重审概念史,借翻译研究说明语义生成的跨语言层面,以此作为其方法论的基础。随后,作者转向国际殖民主义的全盛期,着力阐述"文明"这一概念是如何通过对不同情感的划分、规训与释放促成了不平等的全球殖民秩序。作者还强调了相关情感间既参差不齐又彼此相依的纠缠关系及其表达行为。最后,作者分析了统合相关概念变迁所需的不同时间观。

The historians in the conceptual history believe that language is a medium between us and the world,and rather than a transcendent existence,a linguistic concept is a participant and sign in social change.However,the emerging global history and entangled history challenge the belief in recent years.Based on the long studies of the concept 'civilization with etiquette,' the article rethinks the fundamental presuppositions of the conceptual history.The authors first review the history of concepts with the entangled history and explain the trans-linguistic dimension of semantic generation as the basis on which their methodology is based.Then they turn to the heyday of colonialism,with efforts to explain how the 'civilization' concept had been promoting the unequal order of global colonialism through divisions,disciplines and releases of different emotions,highlighting both the differences and the interdependent entangled relations between relevant emotions,as well as their expressions.Finally,the authors analyze the different views of temporality needed for integrating relevant concepts.