华东师范大学(哲学社会科学版) ›› 2010, Vol. 42 ›› Issue (2): 8-13.

• ● 现代性研究 • 上一篇    下一篇

自我理解的现代转变与政治正当性问题的缘起

刘擎   

  1. 华东师范大学中国现代思想文化研究所、历史系
  • 收稿日期:1900-01-01 修回日期:1900-01-01 出版日期:2010-03-25 发布日期:2010-03-25
  • 通讯作者: 刘擎

The Modern Transformation of Self-understanding and the Origin of the Problem of Political Legitimacy

LIU Qing   

  • Received:1900-01-01 Revised:1900-01-01 Online:2010-03-25 Published:2010-03-25
  • Contact: LIU Qing

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摘要： 政治正当性之所以成为一个问题，源自于一种特定的自我理解，一种“个体先于政治社会”的观念。这种自我理解并不是“自然的”，而是在西方现代性转变出现的一种特定观念，并在社会历史实践中成为主导性的社会想象。本文探讨这种自我理解之形成的哲学基础与历史脉络，试图以一种辩证的方式避免“决定论”和“偶在论”的简单化解释，既强调西方现代转变的文化与历史特殊性，又注重阐明这种转变的内在实践逻辑。由此澄清政治正当性与现代性之间的渊源关系。

关键词: 政治正当性, 自我理解, 现代性

Abstract: What makes the concept of political legitimacy necessary is a certain form of self-understanding, the conception that the individual is prior to political society. This self-conception of the individual is not “natural” reflection of social reality, but rather a cultural construction that comes into being along with the modern transformation of “social imaginaries” in the West. The origin of the problem of political legitimacy lies in the emergence of modernity. This article is to explore the emergence of the modern self-understanding by examining its philosophical basis and historical condition, and do so in a dialectic way that avoids simplistic explanations offered by either determinism or contingencism. It highlights the specificity of cultural contexts in which the modern transformation of self-understanding takes place and meanwhile explains the logic of practice inherent to the transformation.

Key words: Political legitimacy, Social imaginaries, Modernity