“后世俗社会”的批判理论——哈贝马斯与宗教

Critical Theory in the "Post-secular Society":Habermas on Religion

社会批判理论的主要代表尤根.哈贝马斯最近几年来频繁讨论与宗教信仰及其社会作用有关的话题,本文在澄清这些讨论的具体语境的基础上,着重探讨哈贝马斯在"内部超越"观念的语言学转译、"后世俗社会"对宗教传统的世俗转译、实现"内部超越"的社会文化条件观念等方面的观点,并设法表明,哈贝马斯以"超越性"的内在化作为重点的社会批判理论,有助于我们思考中国文化的当代意义,思考中国文化与西方文化进行沟通的文化前提,甚至还可能有助于我们思考马克思主义中国化的文化前提。

Religion is a topic discussed frequently by Juergen Habermas,the major thinker of the Critical Theory,in recent years.After explicating the particular contexts of Habermas's ideas on religion,this paper focuses on Habermas's efforts at linguistic translation of the idea of 'transcendence from within',his demands for a secular interpretation of religious traditions,and his conception of the social-cultural conditions for 'transcendence from within'.At the end of the paper the author tries to show that Habermas's critical theory,with its emphasis on the internalization of the transcendent,which is helpful in our thinking over the contemporary significance of the traditional Chinese culture,the cultural conditions for communication between Chinese and Western cultures,and even the cultural conditions for the Marxism Chinese.