AT THE MARGINS OF THE THEORY OF RECOGNITION:
A SHOT COMMENT ON TWO LESSER WORKS FROM AXEL HONNETH
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7443/problemata.v10i4.49683Keywords:
Axel Honneth, Reification, Recognition, Critical theory, History of IdeasAbstract
The paper discusses critically two books by Axel Honneth. On the one hand, the recent Brazilian-Portuguese translation of his essay on Reification; on the other hand, his book Anerkennung, on the different interpretations of the concept of recognition within three different European philosophical traditions – that from France, that from the United Kingdom and that from Germany. Accordingly, the present paper should be intended as an expanded critical review, in which internal aspects of both books are presented at length, although both books are situated in the larger discussion about Honneth’s own intellectual path. With this aim, the article intents, first, to present both books discussed and, secondly, to show that the connections of both essays to Honneth’s theory of recognition are solid enough to show that that theory is still a work in progress.
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