I'll say again, somewhat in advance perhaps of the time I should say it, that Gadamer thinks that there's something immoral about historicism.

我会再讲一遍，现在说可能有点早，伽达默尔认为历史主义有些不道德。

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Gadamer believes that historicism forgets the possibility of being taught something by past-ness or otherness.

伽达默尔认为历史主义忘记了,我们会从过去性和他性中学到一些东西的可能性。

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Gadamer says, and here again he's attacking historicism: The text that is understood historically is forced to abandon its claim that it is uttering something true.

伽达默尔在攻击历史相对主义时这样说道：,文本如果放在历史的角度理解,那么这样的理解肯定不是绝对正确的。

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In other words, doesn't historicism open the canon and indeed make the process of reading, the experience of reading, archival and omnivorous rather than canonical?

换言之，难道不是历史相对论破坏了标准,甚至让阅读的过程，阅读的经历，变得如档案般无所不包，而不是遵守规范？

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If I'm proud of knowing that in another culture if I belch after dinner it's a compliment to the cook, right, and if I'm proud of knowing that without drawing any conclusions from it, that's sort of the equivalent of historicism.

我知道在另一种文化中,吃饭后打嗝是表示饭菜好吃，我虽然知道但并不从中作出任何结论，这就是历史相对论的表现。

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Now that's a tricky word for us because later in the semester we're going to be reading about something called the New Historicism, and the New Historicism actually has nothing to do with what Gadamer is ; objecting to in this form of historicism; so we will return to the New Historicism in that context.

这个词对我们来说比较具有迷惑性,因为这学期我们还会读到,新历史主义，新历史主义,与伽达默尔所反对的历史主义,没有任何关系;,那个时候我们再来讨论新历史主义。

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