【编者按】新时期以来,在中国思想史研究中,一个被称为“思想文化史”的概念颇为流行。无论是高校的课程设置,还是硕士或博士研究生的招生目录,抑或是学术讨论会的选题,我们都可以看到这个词的频繁出现。但是,却很少看到有人去给这个新的思想史词汇作出明确的概念界定。那么,什么是思想文化史,它和传统的思想史、文化史有什么联系和区别,如何划分他们的边界或畛域,如何理解或看待思想文化史研究的理论与方法等等,诸如此类的问 【Editor’s note】 Since the new era, in the study of Chinese intellectual history, a concept called “the history of intellectual culture” is quite popular. Whether it is the university curriculum, or master’s or doctoral students enrollment directory, or the topic of the symposium, we can see the frequent occurrence of the word. However, it is seldom seen that anyone should make a clear definition of the concept of this new history of thought. So what is the history of ideology and culture, what is the relation and difference between it and the traditional ideological history and cultural history, how to divide their boundaries or boundaries, how to understand or treat the theories and methods of the research on the history of ideological and cultural history, and so on