Teoretski diskurzi tradicionalnega evroameriškega in tradicionalnega kitajskega zgodovinopisja
This paper is within the scope of comparative historiography. It conveys a comparative analysis between Chinese and Euro-American historiographical traditions and deals with problems of cultural and in the narrow sense ideological understandings of contextual data, discursive structures and fundamen...
| Published in: | Asian Studies |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakulte / Ljubljana University Press, Faculty of Arts
2010
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| Online Access: | https://revije.ff.uni-lj.si/as/article/view/2903 https://doi.org/10.4312/as.2010.14.2.21-42 |
| Summary: | This paper is within the scope of comparative historiography. It conveys a comparative analysis between Chinese and Euro-American historiographical traditions and deals with problems of cultural and in the narrow sense ideological understandings of contextual data, discursive structures and fundamental concepts of the two above-mentioned historiographical surroundings. Western scholars have been scientifically oriented ever since the days of ancient Greece. Western cultural history has always emphasized the importance of observation and objective interpretation, which can be explained by a unique history of science in fields of logic, mathematics, biology, physics, etc. Chinese tradition, on the other hand, has always employed moral phraseology and literary-symbolic principles, which have also influenced its historiography. Therefore, classical works of Chinese historiography have above all emphasized tenors of moral and ideological nature. This Chinese moral pragmatism, if we denominate it in that way, is in great contrast to scientific tendencies, which derive from the Western tradition. This is a fact of which Chinese scholars are more and more aware of. Članek sodi na področje primerjalnega zgodovinopisja in obravnava problematiko kulturne in v ožjem smislu ideološke pogojenosti vsebinskih iztočnic, diskurzivnih struktur in temeljnih konceptov zgodovinopisja na primeru evroameriške in kitajske historiografske tradicije. Zahodni izobraženci so znanstveno naravnani že od časa starih Grkov dalje, zahodna kulturna zgodovina pa vseskozi poudarja pomen opazovanja in objektivnega prikazovanja, kar se da razložiti z edinstveno zgodovino znanosti na področjih logike, matematike, biologije, fizike, itd. V nasprotju z njimi je kitajska tradicija vseskozi uporabljala moralno izražanje in literarno-simbolne principe, kar je vplivalo tudi na njihovo zgodovinopisje, ki je s svojimi klasičnimi deli poudarjalo predvsem moralno-ideološke vsebine. Ta kitajski moralni pragmatizem, če ga lahko tako poimenujemo, je v ostrem nasprotju z znanstveno tendenco, ki izvira iz zahodne tradicije, česar se vse bolj zavedajo tudi sami kitajski akademiki. |
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