Redeeming Redemption
Redeeming Redemption
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2004
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Maeve Cooke
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作者：
Maeve Cooke
批判社会理论与乌托邦有着不稳定的关系。一方面，另一种更好的社会秩序的想法是必要的，以便理解它对特定社会背景的批评。另一方面，乌托邦思想必须避免“坏乌托邦主义”（bad utopianism）和“最终主义”（finalism），前者被定义为与实际的历史过程缺乏联系，后者被定义为历史过程的封闭。当代批判社会理论的方法试图通过一种后形而上学的策略来避免这些危险。然而，他们遇到的问题是，乌托邦思想有一个不可避免的形而上时刻。因此，他们不应该试图消除这一时刻，而应该承认它的必然性。我们面临的挑战是在封闭性和可争议性之间、可获得性和不可捉摸性之间保持一种富有成效的紧张关系。本文概述了一种应对这一挑战的策略，这种策略是基于对乌托邦预测的形而上学内容和它们对有效性的错误主张之间的区分。
Critical social theory has an uneasy relationship with utopia. On the one hand, the idea of an alternative, better social order is necessary in order to make sense of its criticisms of a given social context. On the other hand, utopian thinking has to avoid ‘bad utopianism’, defined as lack of connection with the actual historical process, and ‘finalism’, defined as closure of the historical process. Contemporary approaches to critical social theory endeavour to avoid these dangers by way of a post metaphysical strategy. However, they run up against the problem that utopian thinking has an unavoidable metaphysical moment. Rather than seeking to eliminate this moment, therefore, they should acknowledge its inevitability. The challenge is to maintain a productive tension between closure and contestability and between attainability and elusiveness. The paper outlines a strategy for meeting this challenge, a strategy that is based on a distinction between the metaphysical content of utopian projections and their fallible claims to validity.