后现代主义与公众史学的兴起

后现代主义思潮的兴起为历史学带来了一场范式革命,它倡导保持差异的多样化历史写作,鼓励人们放弃"客观历史"的梦想,追求一种奠基于主体间性的历史真实。后现代主义思潮是大众文化崛起、话语权力扩散的产物。在历史领域内,一旦公众将研究历史与写作历史当作一种乐趣时,也就开始瓦解职业历史学的权威性。这种情形与新媒介相结合,必将促成公众史学的兴起。这是一场"小写历史"的盛宴,将历史学带入一个空前繁荣的时代。

The Booming of Postmodernism and Public History

The booming thinking trend of postmodernism,as the prosperity of mass culture and dissemination of discourse power brought about a paradigm revolution in history theory which embraced diversity of historical writing,upheld the quit from "objective recording of history" and the reality described on the basis of narrator.In the domain of history,once the public take studying and writing history as an enjoyment,the authority of professions is bound to be degraded.As a result,the combination of this situation and new media is to promote the prosperity of public history.And this round of amateur's ardor for history ushers in a booming era of history.