后现代主义史学:并非本来意义上的历史学

Postmodernist History:Far From History in Its Original Meaning

从"历史是确实发生过的事件"这一常识出发,对历史学的本义及相关的一些基本概念、原则和方法进行讨论和认定,在此基础上从4个方面对后现代主义史学和本来意义上的历史学进行认真比对、辨析后发现,后现代主义史学无论在研究对象和重点上,还是在研究理念和方法上,均与本来意义上的历史学不同,其最大的问题是历史研究对象即具有客观实在性的历史"事件"在其历史研究中的"缺席",而取而代之的所谓"事实"至多只是不及物的"语言性存在"或"言辞的制品",因而具有明显的"非历史化"倾向,并非本来意义上的历史学。

In the view of the common idea that 'history is the event that actually happened in the past',the paper discusses the original meanings of history—to pursue the truth and apply in practice—as well as its basic concept,principles and methods,making careful comparisons and analysis between postmodernist history and history in its original meaning in four dimensions,and argues that the objects,emphasis,concept and methods of postmodernist history are quite different from those of history in its original meaning. The biggest problem lies in that the object of the historical research,namely,the objective 'event',is 'absent'in the studies of postmodernist history and replaced by the 'facts'which are no more than a 'linguistic existence'or'verbal artifact'. Thus postmodernist history has the strong tendency towards non-historization and is far from history in its original meaning.