要阐释文明的观念 ,需要所有社会科学协力合作。它们当中包括历史学 ,但在本章中历史学仅仅扮演一个微不足道的角色。在此 ,要提到的反而是其他那些被称作辅助学科的社会科学 :地理学、社会学、经济学和集体心理学。这意味着我们要涉足四个截然不同的领域。尽管一开始它们的面 To interpret the notion of civilization requires the cooperation of all social sciences. Among them are historiography, but historiography only plays an insignificant role in this chapter. What needs to be mentioned here is, in fact, the other social sciences that are called auxiliary disciplines: geography, sociology, economics and collective psychology. This means we need to get involved in four distinct areas. Despite their face at the very beginning