ABSTRACT

This article aims to show how the originality of Jaeggi’s contribution to recent debates in critical theory clearly emerges if one compares her approach with what in many ways represents its antecedent and constant point of reference: namely, the critical theory of Axel Honneth. This comparison offers a privileged way of grasping the advantages of Jaeggi’s approach with respect to that of Honneth. At the same time, reversing perspective, it permits us to focus on some open problems in Jaeggi’s critical theory, which deserve to be discussed with care. The negativistic, formal and procedural character of her critical theory, while on one hand shielding her approach from the risks to which the most recent theory of Honneth is exposed – historical teleologism and ethical substantialism – on the other hand exposes her approach to the risk of an excess of formalism and proceduralism, rendering it unable to tackle the central problem for any critical theory: namely, the link with a critical praxis and with the struggles for the emancipation of one’s own time.

摘要

本文旨在表明，如果将 Jaeggi 的方法与在许多方面代表其先行和恒定参考点的东西（即 Axel Honneth 的批判理论）进行比较，那么 Jaeggi 对最近批判理论辩论的贡献的独创性是如何清楚地显现出来的。这种比较提供了一种特殊的方式来掌握 Jaeggi 方法相对于 Honneth 方法的优势。同时，倒转视角，它使我们能够专注于Jaeggi批判理论中的一些开放问题，这些问题值得仔细讨论。她的批判理论的消极、形式和程序特征，