东北大学学报(社会科学版) ›› 2017, Vol. 19 ›› Issue (1): 7-14.DOI: 10.15936/j.cnki.1008-3758.2017.01.002

• 科技哲学研究 • 上一篇    下一篇

技术通史论纲

胡翌霖   

  1. (北京师范大学哲学学院,北京100875)
  • 收稿日期:2016-04-15 修回日期:2016-04-15 出版日期:2017-01-25 发布日期:2017-01-10
  • 通讯作者: 胡翌霖
  • 作者简介:胡翌霖(1985-),男,上海人,北京师范大学博士后研究人员,主要从事技术哲学研究。
  • 基金资助:
    中国博士后科学基金面上资助项目(2015M570047)。

An Outline of a General History of Technology

HU Yi-lin   

  1. (College of Philosophy, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China)
  • Received:2016-04-15 Revised:2016-04-15 Online:2017-01-25 Published:2017-01-10
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摘要: 20世纪后半叶,西方技术史发展走向语境主义,避免宏大叙事,侧重于细微的生活场景。然而技术通史的研究存在问题,碎片化的历史图景虽然能够满足读者猎奇的需求,但难以满足我们追溯自身处境的要求。为了理解自己的时代,我们仍然需要通史的整体视角。“整体”先于“部分”,对历史细节的理解总是潜藏着对总体背景的前理解。而技术通史的编写要求重新审视传统技术史研究的编史学视角,明确提出相关的编史学问题。技术通史关注“作为总体的技术”,亦即意蕴整体或技术环境。技术通史关注技术的发生和变迁过程。在新旧技术之间交替游移之际,技术作为环境的意义才最容易显现出来。归根结底,技术通史关心的不是技术的进步,而是人的生活,技术通史也就是人的生活史。

关键词: 技术史, 技术通史, 编史学

Abstract: In the second half of the twentieth century, the history of western technology was turning to contextualism, evading the grand narrative tradition and highlighting delicate life scenes. However, it is now problematic to write a general history of technology in that a fragmented historical picture could meet the readers curiosity but fail to meet the demands of self-reflection. A comprehensive perspective should be provided to the general history so as to understand our own times. Since the whole is other than the sum of parts, the historical understanding of technological details implies some pre-understanding of the general context. The compilation of a general history of technology calls for reconsideration of the traditional historiography of technology. The general history of technology should concern “technology as the whole”, i.e., the implicit wholeness or the technological environment. Besides, it stresses the emergence and evolution of technology. Shifting between new and old technologies, technology is most likely to stand out in the sense of technology. In sum, what the general history of technology cares about is not technological progress but human life, i.e., the general history of technology is the living history of human beings.

Key words: history of technology, general history of technology, historiography

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