Critical Theory Recognition Of Justice

Philosophy is always deeply questioning, historically reflecting and critically renovating social life in its unique way. The social critical theory advocated by The Frankfurt School is an important research paradigm of contemporary social and political theory, its purpose is looking for human desire and way to a better life by the critical diagnosis of social reality. In the contemporary, Alex·Honneth who is the third generation leader of The German Frankfurt school undertakes the Frankfurt school’s critical mission. He is committed to the revival of the theory of recognition and expands the pluralism justice theory on recognition as basis point. He debated the question of recognition with Nancy·Fraser who is a famous critical theory representative of the United States. The philosophical dialogue across continents and language boundaries, has become important in the field of contemporary Western Marxism and The New Left, which affect the research of contemporary western philosophy、political legal and other fields. This conversation provides reference resources to advance the social problem of conflict and unfair in the theory.Honneth and Fraser broke through limit of area and language, they treated recognition and redistribution as the core focus of debate and paid more attention to the context of globalization and the social conflict and struggle trying to build up the theory of capitalism "generality" standard framework which is beyond the discipline division on the basis of these. The argument regards the category of "recognition" as the core with looking "redistribution-recognition" as the main line. Honneth and Fraser study the unfair problem in contemporary society and construct a new paradigm of justice. So we call this justice theory as "recognition justice" theory. The discussion on the recognition justice originated from Honneth and Fraser, then the discussion swept the numerous critical theorists and scholars. Their focus of the discussion spread gradually from "redistribution--recognition" to the philosophical base of the theories of Fraser’s theory. How to treat the theoretical differences between the two of them? And what are inspiration and meaning of the political philosophy debate for us to reflect on the connotation of justice norms and to examine the current Chinese society? The series of theoretical and practical issues are worthy of our further research and discussion. There are five parts in this dissertation to systematically investigate the two thinkers debate and its significance. First of all, on considering practical problems and the present political life we analyze historical background of recognition justice, and elaborate theory logic and time characteristics of recognition justice. Second, Combining the two thinkers academic texts, especially the "Redistribution or Recognize?" by Honneth and Fraser collaborating, we begin to analyze theory paradigm of Honneth’s recognition justice, and further elucidate theoretical basis、principles of justice、theory core of pluralism justice theory. Third, the paper describes "recognition" concept which is looked as a single cultural meaning by Fraser, and "participation equality" as the core category specification, so as to build the economic, cultural, political, three-dimensional picture of justice. Fraser’s theory is a gradual deepening theory of social justice different from Honneth’s theory. Fourth, we analyze the pros and cons of justice theory of Honneth and Fraser respective, describe the basic problem of the battle between them, and systematically state the possibility of the fusion system. This chapter is also the difficulty of articles. At last, we in-depth judge contribution and gain of the recognition justice from the position of Marxism。We selectively discuss Marx’s view of justice, and put forward a proposal that is feasible solution for the vision of the justice practice. All in all, we try to have more different angles converge to studying the political philosophy of recognition justice, introducing concept into our country context in order to inspire the construction of political civilization in china.The paper is not only a kind of study of thought history, which comprehensively and systematically shows the process of "redistribution-recognition" argument、the focus of the different scholars paying attention and the philosophy tradition of the different scholars; At the same time, the paper is also a comparative study, comparing recognition justice between Honneth and Fraser, comparing thought of justice among Marxism and Honneth and Fraser. The purpose is to grasp the direction of development of contemporary critical theory. In addition, the paper is not only consciously to pull back to the Chinese context in research, but also put forward ideas and suggest that is suitable for us by intervening in discourse of study object. We can get criticism and the corresponding resources from all kinds of theories to more effectively advance our social reforming.