一个“机锋”的历史真探:从《图像证史》看彼得·伯克

A True Historical Exploration of“Keen Words”:Viewing Peter Burke from Eyewitnessing

以《图像证史》及相关著作的局部信息为“证据”,窥探文化史学家彼得·伯克的一些品质,如庞杂的知识结构和宏阔的知识广度,锱铢必较的细节钻营深度,在评判事物时保持机锋和弹性,对小人物和“微素材”的平等对待,以及对权威人物和方法的祛魅,展现出人文关怀、公平多义的价值底色。在《图像证史》的最后,彼得主张结合结构主义、后结构主义和艺术社会学去激活作为工具的图像学,展现了他的知识迁移能力、思辨开放精神和求真向善的野望。

Using the partial information of Eyewitnessing and related works as"evidence",to explore some of the qualities of the cultural historian Peter Burke,such as the complex knowledge structure and the broad breadth of knowledge,and the depth of details that must be compared.When judging things,maintain the dexterity and flexibility,the equal treatment of small people and"micro-materials",and the timidity of authority figures and methods,showing the value background of humanistic care and fairness and ambiguity.At the end of Eyewitnessing,Peter advocated combining structuralism,post-structuralism and art sociology to activate iconology as a tool,demonstrating his ability to transfer knowledge,open-mindedness and ambition of seeking truth and goodness.