论西方卢梭研究的历史演进

卢梭的诸多学说一直有着巨大影响,在西方各种精神和运动中留下印记。研究卢梭的学者们成就斐然,但各种解释互相抵牾,意见分歧已不限于卢梭的政治理论,还包括其经济学说、宗教学说、教育学说和道德学说。20世纪二三十年代,一小批学者开始进行卢梭著作统一性的研究。朗松、赖特和卡西勒三位学者为寻求卢梭那一大原则作出重要贡献。20世纪60年代中期以来,书写卢梭的大潮一直势头不减,并出现一种内在转向,即探察卢梭遗留下来的大宗零散的自传性资料,包括书信、出版著作和卢梭所有的自白,利用这些证据耐心复原卢梭的生活。这并不意味着冷落了卢梭发表的著作,而是将其融入他的整个存在。

The Historical Evolution of the Studies on Rousseau

Rousseau's thoughts have always been very influential in the western world and thus played an important role in different kinds of spiritual and social movements. Although scholars have made tremendous accomplishments in their studies on this great thinker,the findings and comments they made are in conflict with each other. They are divided in their understandings of Rousseau's political theory as well as his theories of economics,religion,education and ethics. In the 1920s and 1930s,a small group of resear...