南非宪法中的人文主义与新自由主义治理的不相容

Kiasha Naidoo
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《南非共和国宪法》是南非从种族隔离政权中解放出来的历史上的一个重要文本。它标志着与旧政权的决裂,旧政权试图保护该国少数白人的繁荣,同时压迫占多数的黑人。宪法中提出的转变显然是合法的,但也是概念性的。它的目的是改变规范结构和辩护原则。正如我将要论证的那样,它提出了一种基于人文主义的规范性话语。由于人文主义有着坎坷的历史,充斥着排斥和征服,因此重要的是要澄清南非宪法中所包含的人文主义是一种将人类理解为潜力所在的人文主义。虽然宪法可能重视这种人文主义,但我们并不清楚我们的其他社会话语是否与这种对人的理解相一致。具体来说,我认为南非话语(在各个领域)中部署新自由主义理性的趋势与南非宪法中概述的人文主义不一致,因此也不允许其实现。
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The Incompatibility of Humanism in the South African Constitution with Neoliberal Governmentality
The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa is a momentous text in the history of South Africa’s liberation from the apartheid regime. It marks a break with the old regime, which sought to protect the prosperity of the country’s white minority while oppressing the black majority. The shift posited in the Constitution was clearly legal, but it was also conceptual. It was written with the intention to change the normative structure and principles of justification. As I will argue, it puts forward a normative discourse based on humanism. Since humanism has a rocky history, rife with exclusion and subjugation, it is important to clarify the sort of humanism contained in the Constitution of South Africa as one which understands the human as a site of potential. Although the Constitution may place value on such a humanism, it is not clear that our other social discourses cohere with this apprehension of the human. Specifically, I claim that the tendency in South African discourse (in various realms) to deploy neoliberal reason is at odds with the humanism outlined in the South African Constitution and therefore also does not allow for its actualisation.
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