AT THE MARGINS OF THE THEORY OF RECOGNITION:

A SHOT COMMENT ON TWO LESSER WORKS FROM AXEL HONNETH

Authors

  • Luiz Gustavo da Cunha de Souza

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7443/problemata.v10i4.49683

Keywords:

Axel Honneth, Reification, Recognition, Critical theory, History of Ideas

Abstract

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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Author Biography

Luiz Gustavo da Cunha de Souza

Professor de Sociologia da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Realizou doutorado sanduíche com bolsa da Fapesp, pós-doutorado com bolsas da Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung e da Capes e estágio de pesquisador visitante no Institut für Sozialforschung, todos na J. W. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main (Alemanha).

References

HONNETH, A. Luta por reconhecimento: a gramática moral dos conflitos sociais. Trad. Luiz Repa. São Paulo: Ed. 34, 2003.
______. Recognition as ideology. In: VAN DEN BRINK, B.; OWEN, D. Recognition and power: Axel Honneth and the tradition of critical social theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. p. 323-347.
______. Das Recht der Freiheit. Grudriß einer demokratischen Sittlichkeit. Berlin: Suhrkamp, 2011 (ed. bras.: O direito da liberdade: fundamentos de uma eticidade democrática. Trad. Saulo Krieger. São Paulo: Martins Fontes, 2015).
______. Barbarizações do conflito social: lutas por reconhecimento ao início do século 21. Civitas, v. 14, n. 1, p. 154-176, 2014.
______. A ideia de socialismo: tentativa de atualização. Lisboa: Ed. 70, 2017.
______. Anerkennung. Eine europäische Ideengeschichte. Berlin: Suhrkamp, 2018a.
______. Reificação: um estudo de teoria do reconhecimento. Trad. Rúrion Soares Melo. São Paulo: Ed. Unesp, 2018b.
MELO, R. S. (Coord.). A Teoria Crítica de Axel Honneth: reconhecimento, liberdade e justiça. São Paulo: Saraiva, 2013.
______. Apresentação. In: HONNETH, A. Reificação: um estudo de teoria do reconhecimento. São Paulo: Ed. Unesp, 2018. p. 9-16.

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Published

2019-12-16

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 4 (2019): Marxism and Critical Theory - Special Issue

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