西方新文化史的兴起与走向

新文化史是 2 0世纪七八十年代以来当代西方史学理论和历史编纂中一个最主要的发展趋势 ,它取代了经济—社会史而成为历史研究的主流。新文化史在形成过程中 ,主要吸收了三个方面的理论和方法———英国马克思主义史学和法国年鉴派史学、后现代文化批评和历史叙述主义、文化人类学。这三个方面的共同作用 ,决定和影响了当今新文化史研究的基本形式与走向。

The Sources and Turn of Cultural History

New Cultural History, which has been developed since the late 1970s and early 1980s, is a main trend in the present Western historiography. It replaced Economic-Social History as the main steam in the history study and writing. The shaping of New Cultural History has three main sources in the theoretical and methodological aspects, that is, British New Marxist history and French Annale history school, Post-Modernist cultural criticism and Historical Narratism, and Cultural Anthropology. These three sources determined and affected the basic form and direction of New Cultural History.