试论罗素的史学审美思想

20世纪50年代,在参与史学是科学还是艺术的大讨论的过程中,英国著名哲学家罗素在史学的服务对象、学术方法和所存在的缺陷方面所提出的一应观点无疑是很有价值的。因为正是这些观点,揭蔡了史学应是审美的这样一个事实;而不能有效地使自己的读者进入审美的境界,即不能使他们通过对史学著述的阅读,来获得“直观自身的本质力量”的愉悦,是当代史学在形态建构和成果具获上的一个严重的缺失。

On Russell's Aesthetic Thought on Historiography

The famous English philosopher Russell participated in the heated discussion on the topic "history is a science or an art" in the 1950s. During the process of discussion, Russell put forward some important viewpoints about the service object, the academic approach and the limitation of history, which indicated the fact that historiography should be aesthetic.The severe fault of contemporary historiography in the construction of modality and the acquirement of production is that history authors cannot let the readers get into the aesthetic circumstance effectively, i.e. readers cannot achieve the joy of "the substantial power of intuition" by reading works on history.