治思想史者,多半有翻案癖,希望在自己的笔下为某一个思想人物洗出一段清白,或是为某一类思想事件洗出一段光彩。我自进入思想史这一行当,始终有一个古怪的寻踪癖,想寻找一群还活着的人,二十年前他们有过一段思想踪迹,似可载入当代大陆思想史。我曾希望这群人能站着进入思想史,或许能改变一下思想史上都是一些横躺着的先逝者的沉闷格局。有一段时间,我甚至感觉自己之所以进入思想 Most of the people who rule the history of thought have the tendency of overturning the case, hoping to wash out some innocent people for a certain ideological figure in their own writing or to wash out some luster for some kinds of ideological events. Since entering the history of intellectual history, I have always had a quirky tracing wanderer looking for a group of still-living people. Twenty years ago they had a trail of thought that seemed to fit into the history of contemporary mainland thoughts. I hoped this group of people could stand in the history of ideas and perhaps change the dull patterns in the history of thoughts that are some of the first to be laid down. For some time, I even felt the reason I got into thinking