历史唯物主义视域下的后现代史学理论——对海登·怀特史学理论的剖析

Viewing Postmodern Theory of History from the Perspective of Historical Materialism:Analysis of Hayden Whites Historical Theory

海登·怀特后现代史学理论是历史唯心主义的一个新版本。它强调历史叙事的“诗性”,抹煞历史客观与文学虚构之间的区别,以历史叙事中的主观性来取代和否定历史的客观性,挑战马克思主义唯物史观。通过剖析该理论可以得出结论:构建中国特色哲学社会科学体系必须坚持以历史唯物主义指导对西方学术成果的研究。

Hayden White's postmodern theory of history is a new version of historical idealism.It em-phasizes"poetics"in historical narrative,erases the difference between historical objectivity and liter-ary fiction,replaces and negates historical objectivity with the subjectivity in historical narrative,and challenges Marxist historical materialism.By analyzing this theory,it can be concluded that we must.keep the study of Western acadermic achievements under the guidance of historical materialism in order to construct a system of philosophy and social sciences with Chinese characteristics.