Precarious Recognition. The "Third Sex" from the perspective of Christian Social Ethics

不稳定的认可。

• 批准号: 492893399
• 负责人: Professorin Dr. Marianne Heimbach-Steins
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institut für Christliche Sozialwissenschaften
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/492893399?language=en
• 关键词: Precarious; Recognition.; Third; Sex; perspective

The starting point of our project was the October 2017 decision of the German Constitutional Court (1 BvR 2019/16) regarding the introduction of a “third sex”, which mandated changes to the civil status law. From the perspective of Christian social ethics and philosophy, the project focuses on the social effects of these legal changes. It analyzes the ongoing political and social debate under two leading questions: Which new social conflicts are produced by recognition, and how can theological ethics contribute to a productive engagement with these conflicts? As a forum of critical reflection, social ethics will focus in particular on the Catholic Church, insofar as the church is a social actor involved in the struggles for recognition surrounding the “third sex”. The legislative process, which produced first results in December 2018, does not mark not the end point of (successful or failed) recognition, but the starting point for necessary reflection on ongoing and newly triggered social processes.The mandated (and by now, legally valid) changes are part of a larger development, which includes the creation of civil partnerships for same-sex couples, marriage equality for same-sex couples, the Constitutional Court’s decisions on the Law on Transsexuals (TSG) and the first, hesitant reform of civil status law in 2013. This development concerns, generally speaking, a flexibilization and liberalization of the legal treatment of categories liked sex/gender, identity, sexuality, partnership, and family.The aforementioned legal changes raise new questions, which cannot be answered from within the legal system – and these also concern the self-conception of the Catholic Church as a social actor. In this context, we want to ask how the Catholic Church can engage with these changes from within the framework of its own ethical and metaphysical tradition, which is grounded in a binary and complementary understanding of sex/gender, and how it might offer constructive contributions to the ongoing process of social recognition. A particular focus will be on the question how these conflicts of recognition are carried out within the church. These conflicts are analyzed on the basis of Judith Butler’s work on theories of recognition, which allows us to conceptualize recognition as an open-ended process without a fixed telos of successful recognition. The underlying differences in world-views concerning the concepts of sex and gender will be examined with Ludwik Fleck’s thought-style analysis.

我们项目的起点是德国宪法法院 2017 年 10 月关于引入“第三性别”的决定 (1 BvR 2019/16)，该决定要求从基督教社会伦理和观点的角度对公民身份法进行修改。该项目侧重于这些法律变革的社会影响，它将持续的政治和社会辩论置于两个主要问题之下：哪些新的社会冲突是由承认产生的，以及神学伦理如何有助于有效地解决这些冲突？作为一个论坛作为批判性反思的一部分，社会伦理将特别关注天主教会，因为教会是参与围绕“第三性别”的承认斗争的社会参与者。2018 年 12 月产生的第一个结果的立法过程并没有。标志着不是（成功或失败）认可的终点，而是对正在进行的和新触发的社会进程进行必要反思的起点。强制的（到目前为止，法律上有效的）变化是更大发展的一部分，其中包括创造同性民事伴侣关系夫妇、同性伴侣的婚姻平等、宪法法院对《变性人法》(TSG) 的裁决以及 2013 年第一次犹豫不决的公民身份法改革。总体而言，这一发展涉及法律待遇的灵活性和自由化性别、身份、性取向、伴侣关系和家庭等类别。所讨论的法律变化提出了新的问题，这些问题无法从法律体系内部得到回答——这些也涉及天主教会作为社会参与者的自我概念。在在此背景下，我们想问天主教会如何在其自身的伦理和形而上学传统框架内应对这些变化，这一传统建立在对性/性别的二元和互补理解的基础上，以及它如何为以下方面提供建设性贡献：社会认可的持续过程将特别关注这些认可冲突如何在教会内进行的问题，这些冲突是在朱迪思·巴特勒关于认可理论的工作的基础上进行分析的，这使我们能够将认可概念化为没有固定目的的开放式过程路德维克·弗莱克 (Ludwik Fleck) 的思想风格分析将探讨有关性别概念的世界观的根本差异。