Normative reconstruction is a form of immanent critique which judges society in terms of values which are already institutionalized and implicitly expressed across everyday forms of interaction. Honneth, for his part, reads the value of social freedom into the normative grammar of modern institutions and anticipates further advances towards its institutionalization. Many have voiced doubts over the extent to which the model of normative reconstruction which Honneth proposes is solidly anchored in social reality: at worst, it is argued, this reality is resistant to reconstruction in terms of the value of social freedom; at best, it is too susceptible to multiple readings to allow for such a reconstruction. I seek to respond to these charges, while also testing the reach of Ricoeur’s understanding of the philosophical anthropological idea of indebtedness to the past, by following up on Honneth’s appeal to a horizon of social memory in response to his own uncertainties over the viability of normative reconstruction. More generally, I seek to arrive at a better understanding of the capacity of memory to orientate social critique within a shifting historical landscape.

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规范重建与社会记忆：Honneth 和 Ricoeur

规范重建是一种内在批判的形式，它根据已经制度化并在日常互动形式中隐含表达的价值观来判断社会。就他而言，霍内斯将社会自由的价值解读为现代制度的规范语法，并预计其制度化会进一步取得进展。许多人对霍内斯提出的规范重建模型在多大程度上牢固地根植于社会现实表示怀疑：据认为，在最坏的情况下，就社会自由的价值而言，这种现实抵抗重建；充其量，它太容易受到多次读数的影响而无法进行这样的重建。我寻求回应这些指控，同时还测试了利科对过去欠债的哲学人类学思想的理解范围，通过跟进霍内斯对社会记忆视野的呼吁，以回应他自己对规范重建可行性的不确定性。更一般地说，我试图更好地理解记忆在不断变化的历史景观中定位社会批判的能力。