格拉斯哥在《国富论》中的地位:夹在传记与文本、哲学史与商业史之间

IF 1.2 2区 历史学 Q3 ECONOMICS
Matthew Watson
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亚当·斯密的传记作家们毫不怀疑,他在格拉斯哥商人社区的生活和工作经历对《国富论》的内容有多么重要。许多以该市为基地的史密斯学者走得更远。他们坚持文本的本质苏格兰性,认为格拉斯哥是苏格兰低地城镇和乡村动态及其融入全球贸易路线之间不可或缺的中介。然而,在史密斯选择构建论点的方式中,格拉斯哥并没有起到明确的作用。我将作品能为特定的阅读群体引发的基本感觉与页面上实际出现的单词并置,以提出在遇到文本中明显缺失时如何进行的方法论问题。读者没有一个特权访问点,可以通过断言某些知识应该存在来提供更正,即使事实并非如此。文本中的缺失并不等同于以明显异常遗漏的形式出现的文本缺失。在解读《国富论》时,对史密斯写作的历史背景的研究不能被赋予同样的权威,因为他直接向读者传达了他对文本和语境之间关系的看法。关于他在格拉斯哥商人群体中的社会和文化嵌入,我们可能知道的比他选择透露的更多,但当手头的事情是文本解释时,这些知识最多只能提供一个额外的视角。这并不能直接替代史密斯选择不说的话。
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The Place of Glasgow in The Wealth of Nations: Caught between Biography and Text, Philosophical and Commercial History
Adam Smith's biographers have been in no doubt how important his experiences of living and working among Glasgow's merchant community were to the content of The Wealth of Nations. Many Smith scholars who themselves have been based in the city go further. They insist on the essential Scottishness of the text, seeing Glasgow as the indispensable intermediary between lowland Scotland's town-and-country dynamics and its insertion into global trading routes. However, Glasgow plays no explicit part in the way Smith chose to construct his arguments. I use this juxtaposition between the fundamental feeling that a work can elicit for a particular reading community and the words that actually appear on the page to ask the methodological question of how to proceed when encountering an apparent absence in a text. The reader does not possess a privileged access point from which to offer correctives by way of asserting that certain knowledge should have been present even though it is not. An absence from the text does not equate to missing text in the form of an obviously anomalous omission. Studies of the historical backdrop against which Smith was writing cannot be given the same authority when interpreting The Wealth of Nations as his direct communication to the reader of his views on the relationship between text and context. We may know more than he chose to reveal about his social and cultural embeddedness within the Glaswegian merchant community, but at most this knowledge can only provide an extra perspective when the matter at hand is textual interpretation. It is not a direct substitute for what Smith chose not to say.
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期刊介绍: Focusing on the history of economic thought and analysis, History of Political Economy has made significant contributions to the field and remains its foremost means of communication. In addition to book reviews, each issue contains original research on the development of economic thought, the historical background behind major figures in the history of economics, the interpretation of economic theories, and the methodologies available to historians of economic theory. All subscribers to History of Political Economy receive a hardbound annual supplement as part of their subscription.
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