“剑桥学派”的史学方法与激进民主  

The Historical Method of the "Cambridge School" and Radical Democracy

作　　者：刘小枫[1] 

机构地区：[1]中国人民大学文学院,北京100872

出　　处：《学术界》2017年第6期24-34,共11页Academics

摘　　要："剑桥学派"虽然是上个世纪70年代崛起的思想史研究学派,但在英美学界的影响辐射力迄今仍然相当强势。"剑桥学派"提出的思想史方法论范式,即"让文本返回它最初的写作语境",看起来非常学术化,即强调作为历史研究的思想史研究的客观性。其实,"剑桥学派"并非仅仅是一个思想史研究的学派,毋宁说,它首先是当代西方学界激进民主政治理论中的一支。"剑桥学派"所提倡的思想史方法范式本身,就具有激进民主性质。其代表人物波考克和斯金纳的史学方法论清楚告诉我们,只有先颠覆传统的思想史研究方法,用新的史学方法取而代之,才能顺应时代的激进民主潮流。"剑桥学派"让思想史研究变成了激进民主政治论的场域,值得我们保持警惕。Since its emergence in the 1970 s as a school of the study of political thoughts,the 'Cambridge School' has been imposing dominating influence in Britain and America ever since.The methodological paradigm proposed by the Cambridge School,i.e.'to bring text back to its original context ',appears initially to be a purely academic notion,which emphasizes that the research of political thoughts should take its bearings as a historical research pursuing the goal of objectivity.It can be revealed upon further examinations,however,that the 'Cambridge School' is not merely a school focusing on the political thoughts,but rather a salient theoretical branch of radical democracy in the contemporary western academic field.The methodological paradigm of the Cambridge School is by itself of the nature of radical democracy.Their leading scholars,John G.A.Pocock and Quentin Skinner,declare with square frankness by their methodology of the historical approach,that an overthrown of traditional approaches to the study of political thoughts by the new historical methods is a necessary precondition to follow and adjust to the contemporary trend of radical democracy.It deserves our concern and alert that the Cambridge School has been turning the agora of political-thought studies into one that is predominated by radical theories of democracy.

关 键 词：“剑桥学派” 波考克 斯金纳 思想史方法论 激进民主 

分 类 号：D091[政治法律—政治学]