在分斷體制下，台灣的主流知識狀況其實是以現代化意識形態為後設架構進行學術生產。於此，台社並非例外，與主流知識生產共享某些現代化後設，從而在方法論台獨的場域中操作知識生產。本文主要藉由對台社季刊的三篇集體寫作歷史地考察台社知識狀況的歷史與結構形成。這個考察經由台獨民粹主義、黨外自由主義、國民黨一路溯及五四新文化運動，企圖藉由對歷史與主體的關係作為軸線，理解台社（以及台灣知識界）的思想狀況。本文提出「方法論中國人」，作為知識上對「方法論台獨」的超克，以及最終對涵括兩岸的分斷體制進行超克。

Under the division system, the mainstream condition of knowledge production is meta-theoretically framed upon certain premises of the alleged modernization theory lying at the core of the broader Cold War ideology, from which the self-acclaimed radical Taishe is not excluded. This paper tries to examine historically the current crisis of knowledge through reading closely three collective writings by Taishe in the past two decades. It is argued that the DPP ethnic populism, the Dangwai (outside the KMT) liberalism, the KMT nationalism, and all the way up to the May Fourth New Culture Movement, all contributed to the explanation of the present crisis of knowledge. The idea of “methodological Chinese” is proposed as a way to overcome the crisis determined or at least conditioned by the historical division system.