从“陆地三分说”看欧洲中心主义下的洲际想象  

A Study of Intercontinental Imagination under Eurocentrism Based on the Theory of Tripartite Division of the Earth

作　　者：艾仁贵[1] Ai Rengui

机构地区：[1]河南大学历史文化学院,开封475001

出　　处：《历史研究》2022年第4期125-145,223,共22页Historical Research

摘　　要：公元前6世纪,古希腊作家认为海洋环绕的“人居世界”可分为三部分,将之命名为欧罗巴、亚细亚和利比亚,古罗马人继承了此划分方式并把利比亚改称阿非利加。中世纪前期,基督教吸收并融合了古希腊罗马的“陆地三分说”和挪亚三个儿子(闪、含、雅弗)划分世界的犹太典故,欧亚非三大洲的洲际话语由此牢固确立。从本质上看,“陆地三分说”是欧洲中心主义对已知世界的认知和想象,它把文明与野蛮、自由与专制的对立以及等级观念,投射到世界不同区域及其民族身上,构成所谓“欧洲优越论”的逻辑起点。In the 6century BC,ancient Greek writers divided the ocean-surrounded oikoumene into three parts and named them Europe,Asia,and Libya.Ancient Romans adopted this division but renamed Libya Africa.In the early Middle Ages,Christianity accepted and integrated the theory of tripartite division of the earth and the Jewish allusion that the world was divided by Noah’s three sons(Shem,Ham,and Japheth).Thereout,the intercontinental discourse of Europe,Asia,and Africa was fi rmly established.In essence,the theory of tripartite division of the earth was the cognition and imagination of the known world under Eurocentrism.It projected onto different regions and nations the opposition between civilization and barbarism,and that between freedom and despotism,as well as the concept of hierarchy,thus becoming the origin of“European superiority”.

关 键 词：陆地三分说 人居世界 欧洲中心主义 洲际想象 欧洲优越论 

分 类 号：K107[历史地理—历史学]