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空间视域下江户时期知识传播对庶民社会性格的形塑探究

Knowledge Transmission and the Formation of Commoners’ Social Character in the Edo Period: A Spatial Perspective

Progress in Social Sciences / 2025,7(9): 736-740 / 2025-10-09 20 11

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• Authors: 张心越 陆薇薇
• Information:

  东南大学外国语学院，南京

• Keywords:
  Edo period; Knowledge transmission; Spatial production; Commoner class; Character formation
  江户时期; 知识传播; 空间生产; 庶民阶层; 性格形塑
• Abstract: As a crucial period of social transformation in Japanese history, the Edo period witnessed unprecedented prosperity in the circulation of knowledge and the rise of commoner culture. This paper adopts a spatial perspective, drawing on Lefebvre’s theory of the social production of space and Maruyama Masao’s theory of cultural contact, to examine the mechanisms of knowledge production and dissemination within Edo commoner culture across three dimensions: fixed spaces, mobile spaces, and heterotopic spaces. The study demonstrates that different spatial forms of knowledge circulation profoundly influenced the formation of commoners’ social character. Fixed spaces, through institutionalized education and everyday social interaction, fostered pragmatic rationality and flexible openness; mobile spaces, facilitated by specific groups and unique media such as lending libraries, promoted the formation of informal knowledge networks and cultivated an open cognitive structure and mindset; heterotopic spaces, as arenas of intercultural contact and exchange, gave rise to both cultural subjectivity and a spirit of pluralistic inclusiveness. This research provides a new analytical framework for understanding the formation of modern Japanese national character and offers a fresh perspective on the socio-cultural development of the Edo period. 作为日本历史上社会变革的重要时期，江户时期的知识流动空前繁荣，庶民文化崛起。本论文从空间视域出发，综合运用列斐伏尔的空间社会生产理论以及丸山真男的文化接触论，着眼于固定空间、流动空间，以及异空间三个层次，系统阐释江户庶民文化的知识生产与传播机制，以揭示其与庶民社会性格特质形成的内在关联。研究表明，不同空间形态下的知识传播对庶民社会性格的形成产生了深远影响。固定空间通过制度化的知识启蒙与日常化的社交信息交互，塑造了江户庶民务实理性与开放灵活的价值取向；流动空间借助特定群体与“贷本”等特殊知识传播媒介，大大促进了庶民群体非正式知识网络的形成，培育出开放性的认知结构与思维模式；异空间作为与“他文化”接触与互动的场域，催生了江户庶民兼具文化主体性与多元包容性的精神品格。本研究为解构日本近代国民性生成机制提供了新的分析框架，也为理解日本江户时期的社会文化发展提供了新的视角。
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.35534/pss.0709125（DOI 注册中）
• Cite: 张心越，陆薇薇．空间视域下江户时期知识传播对庶民社会性格的形塑探究［J］．社会科学进展，2025，7（9）：736-740.