远方的陌生人

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• 博学者如享利利·梅因——他是法学理论家、历史学家及文官——认为从阶级到契约的转变是现代文明的基础。为证明此观点，他指出，司法权威和权力已从以亲族或部落关系为基础的体系转变为以个人为中心、由国家裁决的体系。无独有偶，德国社会学家斐迪南·滕尼斯也提出了类似观点，即存在着两种社会组织，他称之为礼俗社会( Gemeinschaft)和法理社会( Gesellschaft)。前者以内在的社群归属感和社会生活中的利关系为特征，后者则指代一种个人主义，自发性的结盟在其中都出于功利和自我服务的目的。 (查看原文)

  FACT 2赞 2018-04-01 16:50:29

• In this reading, British history was the victim of the culture wars in the American and Canadian academies, which had branded British history as that of DWM (Dead White Men) and encouraged history departments to replace historians of Britain with those of other parts of the world. The report's (Stansky Report) prescription for this malaise was for British historians to take an imperial turn that acknowledged the contagious and exploitive presence of empire. This is now the orthodoxy of the field in the United States, where the history of imperial Britain has new resonance as America has increasingly trodden in the shadows of the British Empire by intervening in the very regions once colonized by Britain. All of a sudden, whether one is a champion or critic (and *there are* champions who ha... (查看原文)

  lowai 2017-12-13 12:21:08

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