现代性·解放政治·生活政治--吉登斯的思想地形图

考察吉登斯的思想发展历程,现代性是其学术研究的连贯课题.同时,他对现代性的反思又是围绕解放政治这一核心思想展开的,解放政治是现代性发展的基点和动力源泉.启蒙运动以来,解放政治的发展并没有把人类带入一个完全解放的社会,相反,它给人类生存带来了一系列后果严重的风险.为此,吉登斯提出了生活政治的设想,以实现对解放政治的超越和对高度现代性社会的重建.

Modernity, Emancipatory Politics and Life Politics: Topographic Map of Giddens's Thoughts

This paper aims at outlining the system of Giddens's thoughts.On the basis of analysis of the components of Giddens's theoretical system,this paper reasons and demonstrates that modernity is his consistent academic subject.Meanwhile,his reflection on modernity is based on the core concept of emancipatory politics,which is the foundation and dynamical headspring of emancipatory politics.From the Enlightenment on,the emancipatory politics has greatly developed,but such attempts have failed to bring human race into a fully emancipatory society.Instead,it brought a series of serious risks for human existence.Therefore,Giddens advances an ideal blueprint of life politics,which tends to surmount the emancipatory politics and rebuild the high-modernity society.