Logics of History

• 魏玛注销局地勤

  2011-02-23
  In short, the rise of social history entailed a redefinition of the primary object of historical knowledge - as well as the discovery of new means of gaining knowledge about this object.
• 魏玛注销局地勤

  2011-02-23
  It was largely by aggregating the rather thin and stereotypic information contained in the records of such encounters between ordinary people and public authorities that social history were able to reconstruct the patterns of these otherwise anonymous lives.
• 魏玛注销局地勤

  2011-02-23
  ……chosen to write dissertations on social historical topics, and secured good academic jobs in the rapidly expanding American university system with an ease that now seems almost obscene.
• 魏玛注销局地勤

  2011-02-22
  I... will concentrate instead on the epistemological and methodological presuppositions that underlie these two types of historical research. I shall pay especially close attention to the relationship between epistemology and politics, a relationship that, in the case of social and cultural history, has been complicated, paradoxical, and at times even perverse.
• 知闲

  2011-02-17
  My main points may be summarized as follows: culture, I have argued, should be understood as a dialectic of system and practice, as a dimension of social life autonomous from other such dimensions both in its logic and in its spatial configuration, and as possessing a real but thin coherence that is continually put at risk in practice and therefore subject to transformation.
• 知闲

  2011-02-16
  To this end I propose five key axioms: the multiplicity of structures, the transposability of schemas, the unpredictability of resource accumulation, the polysemy of resources, and the intersection of structures.
• 知闲

  2011-02-16
  It is my conviction that a theory of change cannot be built into a theory of structure unless we adopt a far more multiple, contingent, and fractured conception of society—and of structure.
• 知闲

  2011-02-16
  He employs comparison not to establish causal laws that hold across a variety of supposedly equivalent cases, but to find analogies that help him to better theorize and explain the historical developments in each case.
• 知闲

  2011-02-15
  I would contend that much of this unvoiced work occurs in her handling of events.
• 知闲

  2011-02-15
  I will argue that the dominant teleological and experimental concepts of temporality are seriously deficient……eventful notion of temporality, which sees the course of history as determined by a succession of largely contingent events.
• 知闲

  2011-02-15
  The remainder of this book, by demonstrating the compatibility of structural thinking with an emphasis on culture, contingency, and agency, attempts to respond to this looming historiographical challenge—by providing a theoretical language transcending the antinomy of social and cultural history.
• 知闲

  2011-02-14
  …… But it does seem to have made strong structural determinisms less plausible across the board and to have induced thinkers in a number of different intellectual locations and with a whole range of political and epistemological proclivities to turn toward more micro-level or actor-based forms of explanation.……
• 知闲

  2011-02-14
  In the post-Fordist period, advertising and design have worked to diversify consumer tastes by creating and commercially exploiting a multitude of consumer "lifestyles".
• momo

  2024-01-21
  话话话语中，衔接意味着特定话语与另一种话语处于附属或关联的状态。 用后结构主义的话来说，关联不同话语的操作通常被称作“缝合”(suturing)。 反之，“衔接”也能用来指话语间自然地结合或配合，一如人类体内节节接合的脊椎，所以，“缝合”也指外科医生的积极干预，即把之前相互分离的肌理缝在一起。 对文化史来说，与衔接或缝合话语有关的问题，就像面包跟黄油一样不可或缺例如，莱奥诺·达维多夫(Leonore Davidoff)* 与凯瑟琳·霍尔(Catherine Hall)曾论及，在19 世纪的不列颠，一种女性气质(femininity)的话语已附着在有关中产阶级家庭话语中，并形成了家庭生活(domesticity)的观念(1987)。 我也解释过相似的情况，即在法国1830 年七月革命后几年，兵工如何把个人自由的话语与行业稳定的合作话语联合起来，创造出围绕“社团”(association)这个关键术语展开的、原社会主义(proto-socialist)的阶级意识(1980:194-218;1981).此例中，文化史学者解释了语言创新中有特定动机的行动，如何融汇或接合了之前不同的话语领域，从而永久影响了如今已经相互衔接的语义与句法。
• 宇凡

  2017-12-30
  但用语言隐喻为何符号性编码采取特定种类，或其如何产生、保持和转型，恐怕力有不逮。
• [已注销]

  2016-11-08
  但把“社会”当成话语事实理解，最终想解决的问题，与其在18世纪新出现的用法试图解决的一致，是要为人类生活提供本体论基础。
• [已注销]

  2016-10-23
  读过前几章的人，应该留意到了我对方法论的强烈偏好。坦率地说，我承认自己是把社会生活首先视为阐释（诠释）性和历史性的。在此前提下，思考任何社会行动、公共团体或事件时，都涉及两个核心问题：其一是受众体验；其二是，对我们自己和我们研究的对象来说，变动的框架在彰显意涵的过程中扮演了什么角色。研究者所面临的最大挑战，是如何重构变动世界的意义和经验，使读者也认可这种解读，尤其读者本身也在研究研究和捕捉这些内容。