“个体化”的反思与“社会团结”的可能性

The Reflection of“Individuation”and the Possibility of“Social Solidarity”

“个体化”是现代社会的根本特征和基本趋势。在“个体化”的现代社会,“社会团结”何以成为可能,已越来越凸显为一个重大的理论和现实挑战。“个体化”一方面把个人从对人的依赖关系中解放出来,使其获得前所未有的自主性和独立性,这是现代社会的重大成就,但另一方面,它又使人与人的结合,即社会团结面临着重大的挑战。要推动“社会团结”的重建,一个重要理论前提是超越抽象的自由主义和共同体主义所代表的两极对立的立场,探求在差异性中实现统一性。而其中,超越“个体主义”意识形态,生成“互依性社会关系”,对于“社会团结”的重建具有特殊重要的现实意义。

“Individualization”is the basic feature and trend of modern society.In the“individualized”modern society,how“social solidarity”becomes possible has become a major theoretical and practical challenge.“Individualization”,on the one hand,frees individuals from their dependence on people and gives them unprecedented autonomy and independence,which is a major achievement of modern society.On the other hand,it also makes social solidarity to be a major challenge.In order to promote the reconstruction of“social solidarity”,an important theoretical premise is to transcend the polar opposite position represented by the abstract liberalism and communitarianism,to explore the realization of unity in the difference.Among them,the formation of“interdependent social relations”beyond the ideology of“individualism”has special and important practical significance for the reconstruction of“social solidarity”.