If social critique is to play a role in broad social transformation, then it must be able to engage with the terms that people use to understand their lives. This essay argues that we can find an important model for performing social critique in the quite different work of Jeffrey Stout and Judith Butler. For both, social critique must be immanent and it must make explicit the character of the norms by which people currently live. This model is especially important in a situation where various moral and cultural traditions are confronting one another, and where it is necessary to work towards shared social and political goals. Stout and Butler present a method for achieving one's political goals by engaging with others on terms that they would recognize and seeking to transform the political structures they inhabit. Furthermore, their approaches provide helpful insights for further reflection on the critical possibilities in current ethnographic work.

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斯托特和巴特勒的社会批判与转型

如果社会批判要在广泛的社会变革中发挥作用，那么它必须能够使用人们用来理解他们生活的术语。本文认为，我们可以在杰弗里·斯托特 (Jeffrey Stout) 和朱迪思·巴特勒 (Judith Butler) 截然不同的作品中找到进行社会批判的重要模型。对于两者而言，社会批判必须是内在的，并且必须明确说明人们目前生活的规范的特征。这种模式在各种道德和文化传统相互对抗的情况下尤其重要，在这种情况下，必须努力实现共同的社会和政治目标。Stout 和 Butler 提出了一种实现政治目标的方法，方法是与他人以他们认可的方式进行交往，并寻求改变他们所居住的政治结构。此外，