Marnie Hughes‐Warrington's book, History as Wonder: Beginning with Historiography, invites readers to reconsider the power of wonder as a critical concept whose theoretical implications go far beyond its evident ability to inspire historical research. Wonder is supposedly a neutral weapon for historians, one that is limited to promoting incessant curiosity about the past. Attempting to move from a poetic and aesthetic vision of wonder to a consideration of the concept's ethical and political uses, Hughes‐Warrington claims that “historians since Herodotus have engaged with or responded to the efforts of thinkers who attempt to make general sense of the world, metaphysicians” (xii). In what follows, I challenge Hughes‐Warrington's approach by emphasizing and exploring the epistemological questions History as Wonder raises about who holds the power to establish a conventional sense of the world and to what extent historical research may offer general explanations of the world without succumbing to precritical assumptions or metahistorical reductionisms.

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奇迹：从诗论到政治

玛妮·休斯·沃灵顿（Marnie Hughes-Warrington）的书《作为奇迹的历史：从史学开始》，邀请读者重新考虑奇迹作为一种关键概念的力量，其理论意义远不止于其启发历史研究的明显能力。据说Wonder是历史学家的中立武器，仅限于促进对过去的不断好奇。休斯-沃灵顿试图从诗意和美学的奇观转变为对概念的伦理和政治用途的考虑，声称“自希罗多德以来的历史学家参与或回应了试图使世界具有普遍意义的思想家的努力。 ，形而上学”（xii）。接下来，我通过强调和探索认识论问题来挑战休斯·沃灵顿的方法《奇迹般的历史》提出了谁有权建立传统的世界观，以及在不屈服于前批判性假设或元历史还原论的前提下，历史研究可以在多大程度上提供对世界的一般性解释。