后现代社会是自上世纪晚期西方社会经历的重大变迁,其知识经济特征和后官僚的公共治理方式是软法产生的现实温床;反对基础主义、普遍主义和本质主义的后哲学文化奠定了软法产生的思维前奏;而现代之后出现的回应型法、交往理论、虚设法假设理论等法学思想可为软法提供理论上的支撑。 Postmodern society has undergone major changes in western social history since the late of last century. The characteristics of its knowledge economy and post-bureaucratic public governance are realistic hotbeds of soft law. The post-philosophical culture that opposed basicism, universalism and essentialism lays the foundation for soft Law, and the legal thinking such as response-type law, communicative theory and fictitious law hypothesis emerged after the modern era can provide the theoretical support for the soft law.