将重要的事放在首位——再分配、承认和辩护

First Things First Redistribution,Recognition and Justification

一南茜·弗雷泽与阿克塞尔·霍耐特的之间争论代表了构建我们所说的综合的正义的批判理论的两种最先进的理论尝试。他们各自主张的方法之间的对立使我们想起了古老的"批判的分裂",即源自启蒙运动的批判性话语和马克思主义传统的两种理论标准之间的分歧。

This article analyses the debate between Nancy Fraser and Axel Honneth in a dialectical fashion.Their controversy about how to construct a critical theory of justice is not just one about the proper balance between"redistribution"and"recognition",it also involves basic questions of social ontology.Differing both from Fraser’s"two dimensional"view of"participatory parity"and from Honneth’s"monistic"theory of recognition,the article argues for a third view of"justificatory monism and diagnostic evaluative pluralism",also called the"first-things-first"approach.According to it,theories of recognition provide an essential sensorium for analyses of social suffering and of injustice,while with respect to the justification of justice claims,a discursive conception of justification is required.This,however,does not imply a purely"formal"account of justice;rather,it leads to a substantive understanding of the"grammar of justice",motivationally,socially and institutionally.Such an account of a critical theory of justice aims at a multidimensional critique of social and political"relations of justification".