雅斯贝斯的世界历史纲要与文化研究的历史视野

人类文化在本质上是历史的,只有把文化放在适当的历史视野中才能理解文化的真实内涵。雅斯贝斯的世界历史纲要,就是他为自己打造的一个历史视野。带着对人类文化和历史的困惑,并通过对雅斯贝斯世界历史纲要及其基本概念——“轴心期”的解读,本文尝试着提出一个粗略的人类历史纲要,并在此基础上尝试着提出一个新的历史视野和文化框架。本文认为,在这个新的历史视野和文化框架下,研究、分析和解读全部人类历史也即人类由起源走向未来的自我创造和自我发展的过程,是文化研究的根本任务。

Jaspers' Outline of World History and the Historical Perspective in Cultural Studies

Human culture is essentially historical, whose authentic concept can only be comprehended within its proper historical horizon. Jaspers' outline of world history is the historical horizon he made for himself. With the puzzle over human culture and history and the interpretaion of Jaspers' outline of world history plus its basic concept axial period, this article tries to propose an elementary outline of human history, on which a new historical horizon and culture framework shall be established. This article argues that under the new historical horizon and culture framework, the fundamental task for the culture research is to study, analyze and interpret whole human history, that is, the course of self-creation and self-development in which human-beings went from origin into the future.