| As the core figure of the third generation of Frankfurt School,Axel Honneth critically inherits Hegel’s recognition theory,George Herbert Mead’s social psychology,Michel Foucault’s power theory and Habermas’ s communicative action theory.Based on these theories,he formed his own theory of recognition,thus realized the political and ethical turn of social critical theory,which is of great significance in academic circles.This paper will systematically discuss Honneth’s theory of recognition from three aspects: his ideological origin,his theory of recognition and the development of his theory of pluralistic justice.In his theory of recognition,Honneth reconstructs the "struggle for recognition" as the motive of social conflict with three forms of recognition between subjects(love,law,solidarity)and three opposite experiences of contempt(rape,deprivation of rights and insult).After that,he puts forward the principles of need,equality and contribution as the three principles of recognition respectively for the fields of love,legal right and contribution proposed in the recognition theory in his view of pluralistic justice,and constructed a pluralistic justice view with recognition as the basis of moral norms and "good life" as the normative goal.Honneth’s theory of recognition has great potential to solve the problem of gender injustice raised by feminists.In the last part of the paper,I will provide an analysis of the phenomenon of gender injustice,and by comparing the different solutions to the problem between Fraser’s justice concept and Hornet’s justice theory,I will clarify the reason why Honneth’s is superior to Fraser’s,and thus reveal the possibility of applying and deepening Honneth’s recognition theory in the field of feminism. |
