两次世界大战之间英国左翼知识分子的人民史观

The Generation of the British Left-wing Intellectuals’ View of the People’s History in the Interwar Years

两次世界大战之间英国文明面临的困境和危机是左翼知识分子人民史观生成的现实基础。基于对作为文明危机表象的诸多社会问题的体察和认知,左翼知识分子意识到社会变革的必要性,并在思想和实践层面接纳了有着丰厚历史变革意涵的“人民”一词,将之纳入对社会历史的分析,从而形成了以人民为本位的社会历史解释范式。左翼知识分子的人民史观有着关于历史本体论和认识论的理论逻辑,以及到人民中去和从人民出发的现实理念。这一历史观突破了英国史学传统中精英史观在社会历史解释方面的主导局面,其以人民为本位的历史解释逻辑也在一定程度上超越了同时代兴起的诸多社会史流派,从历史和现实的层面彰显了人民的价值和地位。

The predicament and crisis faced by the British capitalist in the interwar years was the realistic basis for the generation of the view of the people’s history.On the basis of the observation and cognition of the civilization crisis,the left-wing intellectuals realized the necessity of social change and accepted the meaning of the people.By bring the people into the analysis of social history,left-wing intellectuals have formed a paradigm of people-centered social-historical interpretation.This view has a theoretical logic on historical ontology and epistemology,and the realistic idea of going to the people and starting from the people.The formation of the view of the people’s history broke through the dominant situation of the elite historical view in the interpretation of history,its logic of historical interpretation based on the people also surpassed many schools of social history in this age,and reveals the value of the people from historical and realistic level.