Abstract:

This article discusses contextualisation in early modern, mainly English intellectual history, from which ‘Cambridge contextualist’ history arose. It argues that contextualisation is a ubiquitous aspect of understanding and that historical contexts are unstable historiographical necessities, not features of history. It explores the issues most with reference to J. G. A. Pocock’s notions of ‘past-relationships’ in tension with a sense of historicity, and the ‘languages’ he considers fundamental to intellectual history. The former provides a valuable analytic vocabulary in and beyond the early modern; the latter are problematic. Discussion of the difficulties leads directly a critique of a conceptual realm as a necessary context for intellectual history.

摘要：

本文讨论近代早期的语境化，主要是英国思想史，“剑桥语境主义”历史由此产生。它认为，语境化是理解的一个普遍方面，历史语境是不稳定的史学必需品，而不是历史的特征。它探讨的问题主要参考了 JGA Pocock 的“过去关系”概念与历史性感的张力，以及他认为对思想史至关重要的“语言”。前者提供了早期现代及其之后的有价值的分析词汇；后者是有问题的。对这些困难的讨论直接导致了对作为思想史必要背景的概念领域的批判。