观念史的回归:后斯金纳时代思想史方法论的新发展

The Return of Conceptual History:New Methodological Developments in the Historyof Ideas inthe Post-Skinnerian Era

近年来,书写长时段思想史的主张开始出现,观念史呈现出“回归”的迹象。2020年,《历史哲学杂志》刊登了一期“思想史哲学与概念变化”特刊,从两个方面体现了思想史研究的这一趋势:一是从“意图意涵”到“引申意涵”的转变,二是重建概念连续性的种种尝试。

Lovejoy's history of ideas was the dominant research paradigm in the English-speaking world in the mid-20th century,emphasizing the autonomy and continuity of thee"unitideas"in history.After the 197Os,conceptual history declined due to the rise of Quentin Skinner's"historical contextualism."In 2020,the Journal of the Philosophy of History published a special issue titled"Forum Debate on the Philosophy of Intellectual History and Conceptual Change,reflecting this trend in the study of the history of ideas in two ways:the shift from"intended meaning"to"derived meaning,"and the attempts to reconstruct conceptua1l continuity.The second is the variousaattemptstoreconstruct tconceptual continuity.Despitetthesimilarities with conceptual history,the theoretical basis of this special issue is fundamentally different from the former.At the same time,the"return of conceptualhistoryd"oesnot denythe rationality of context.