scholarly journals Between Ideology and Utopia: Honneth and Ricoeur on Symbolic Violence, Marginalization and Recognition

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marianne Moyaert
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Symbolic Violence ◽  
Symbolic Order ◽  
Counter Narratives ◽  
Axel Honneth ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
Cultural Minorities ◽  
Struggle For Recognition ◽  
Vital Resource

This article focuses on multiculturalism in the context of present-day societies and the need to incorporate minorities within a reframed social order. In his critical theory, Axel Honneth rightly draws attention to the idea of the moral grammar of struggles for recognition.  Analyzing his theory in depth, the article shows that Honneth underestimates the violent power of ideological discourse in marginalizing and excluding society’s others, e.g. cultural minorities. It then puts forward an alternative approach based on Ricœur’s creative and original reflections on ideology and utopia. For the incorporation of cultural minorities to occur, the symbolic order of society needs to be critiqued, transformed and expanded. From this perspective, the author highlights the subversive and transformative strength of utopian counter-narratives. The latter form a vital resource for cultural minorities in their struggle for recognition.

Herrschaft begreifen: Anerkennung und Macht in Axel Honneths kritischer Theorie

2014 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy Allen
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Recognition Model ◽  
Axel Honneth ◽  
Social Domination ◽  
Satisfactory Analysis ◽  
Struggle For Recognition

AbstractAxel Honneth frames his contribution to the tradition of critical theory as an attempt to do justice to both the structures of social domination in contemporary Western societies and the practical resources for their overcoming. This paper assesses how well Honneth’s critical theory, which centers on the notion of the struggle for recognition, accomplishes the first of these two tasks. I argue that Honneth has yet to offer a fully satisfactory analysis of domination because his recognition model is unable to make sense of modes of subordination that function without producing any struggle.

scholarly journals Luta por reconhecimento: a gramática moral dos conflitos sociais

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 194-197
Author(s):  
Arthur Lustosa Strozzi ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Philosophy ◽  
Present Review ◽  
Social Conflicts ◽  
Original Idea ◽  
Axel Honneth ◽  
Struggle For Recognition

The present review aims to synthesize the theory of recognition developed by Axel Honneth in his work “The Struggle for Recognition: The Moral Grammar of Social Conflicts". His study contains three chapters that interconnect within the methodology used by Critical Theory. First, the author proposes a historical presentification, indicating Hegel's original idea. Subsequently, Honneth updates the structure of social relations of recognition proposed by Hegel; and concludes, pointing out the perspectives of social philosophy, by indicating the aspects of morality and the evolution of society.

scholarly journals A luta por reconhecimento de direitos na teoria crítica de Axel Honneth e a experiência da audiência pública sobre cotas raciais na ADPF 186: reflexões sobre experiências de desrespeito, movimentos sociais e luta por direitos | The struggle for recognition of rights in Axel Honneth’s Critical Theory and the experience of the ADPF 186 public hearing on racial quotas: remarks on experiences of disrespect, social movements and struggle for rights

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ricardo Juozepavicius Gonçalves
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
Public Hearing ◽  
Axel Honneth ◽  
Struggle For Recognition

Desde a sua origem e progressivamente ao longo das décadas a tradição de pensamento da teoria crítica dedicou esforços voltados a temas relacionados ao direito moderno, buscando compreender suas dinâmicas, funções, potenciais e bloqueios emancipatórios. Um dos autores atuais e mais influentes desta tradição é Axel Honneth que, em sua obra Luta por reconhecimento, desenvolve a tese de que a luta por reconhecimento contém uma força moral que pode promover desenvolvimentos e progressos na vida social. A partir de sua construção da existência de três possíveis esferas de reconhecimento, dentre elas a esfera dos direitos, buscamos extrair o que pode ser considerado direcionado ao campo jurídico na luta por reconhecimento de Honneth, relacionando-a com as considerações recentes do autor no campo do debate contemporâneo sobre teorias de justiça, em que busca realizar uma ligação entre o âmbito individual e o coletivo da vida social, possibilitando moldar uma proposta de uma teoria crítica da justiça em que as lutas por reconhecimento poderiam ter influência direta na definição normativa de parâmetros de justiça de uma sociedade.

Disrespect and political resistance

Thesis Eleven ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 114 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-60
Author(s):  
Renante D. Pilapil
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Political Resistance ◽  
Critical Potential ◽  
Ethics Of Recognition ◽  
Struggle For Recognition ◽  
The Way

This article examines the critical potential of Honneth’s theory or ethics of recognition by raising two concerns as regards the success of such a project. Firstly, this article argues that Honneth’s ethical turn in critical theory might not be completely warranted and that there are good reasons to supplement his theory of recognition with an account of justificatory practices. Secondly, it argues that the complexity of the beginnings of political resistance proves that an explanative gap remains to be filled to account for the way in which personal experience of disrespect can be transformed into a collective struggle for recognition. By way of conclusion, this article posits that instead of rejecting the critical potential of Honneth’s theory, the concerns raised therein are invitations to specify his theory further, so that contemporary struggles for recognition can be understood more profoundly.

Occupational Medicine: Toward a Worker/Patient Empowerment Approach to Occupational Illness

2002 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 515-549 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael B. Lax
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Occupational Medicine ◽  
Patient Empowerment ◽  
Popular Education ◽  
Paulo Freire ◽  
Occupational Illness ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
Transformative Action ◽  
Education Work

Clinicians practicing occupational medicine are increasingly confronted with patients who have complex illnesses with chronic nonspecific symptoms. Most clinicians use the traditional tools of biomedicine to diagnose and treat the illness, determine etiology, and assess disability. This article argues that the biomedical approach is inadequate to effectively evaluate and treat occupational illness. After reviewing several critiques of biomedicine, including biopsychosocial, feminist, class, and critical theory/postmodern perspectives, the author offers an alternative approach that builds on aspects of these perspectives as well as the “popular education” work of Paulo Freire. Constraints on, and possibilities for, the development of an alternative approach that attempts to build patients' capacities for transformative action are explored.

Axel Honneth, The Struggle for Recognition

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Clifton Mark
Keyword(s):  
Social Theory ◽  
Social Conflict ◽  
Middle Ground ◽  
Axel Honneth ◽  
Social Esteem ◽  
Struggle For Recognition

Axel Honneth’s The Struggle for Recognition develops an empirically anchored theory of social conflict based on Hegel’s theory of recognition. In this book, he argues for an intersubjective view of identity and a moral interpretation of social conflict. According to Honneth, social struggles may be normatively evaluated by the extent to which they provide the preconditions for self-realization in the form of three distinct types of recognition: love, respect, and social esteem. Honneth’s normative ideal aims to occupy a middle ground between overly abstract Kantian theories and potentially parochial communitarian theories. Although the book has been subject to a variety of criticisms, it provides the most systematic and ambitious social theory of recognition available today.

Mourning the death of a state to enliven it: Notes on the ‘weak’ Yemeni state

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-244
Author(s):  
Kamilia Al-Eriani
Keyword(s):  
Gulf Cooperation Council ◽  
The State ◽  
Political Community ◽  
Symbolic Violence ◽  
Weak State ◽  
Social Disintegration ◽  
Alternative Approach

Observers interested in Yemen often worry about the near collapse of the Yemeni state. Such worries assume that the death of the state will lead to a complete social disintegration. With a brief reflection on the 2011 Gulf Cooperation Council Initiative, the recent US–Saudi-led intervention, this article argues that thinking about the Yemeni state through public worry is an exercise in symbolic violence. This violence articulates itself through the erasure of Yemenis’ communitarian culture; an erasure that becomes the condition for perpetuating the life of the discursively produced ‘weak’ state, and the domination of regional-international powers. This article proposes an alternative approach towards rethinking the ‘weak’ Yemeni state. It suggests that rethinking the Yemeni state through mourning its death could possibly give birth to a novel form of political community. It is through acts of mourning the injury and (imagined) death of the weak Yemeni state that the promise of the state as a unifying apparatus is reclaimed.

Rousseau and Critical Theory

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-55
Author(s):  
Alessandro Ferrara
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Political Order ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The One

InRousseau and Critical Theory, Alessandro Ferrara argues that among the modern philosophers who have shaped the world we inhabit, Rousseau is the one to whom we owe the idea that identity can be a source of normativity (moral and political) and that an identity’s potential for playing such a role rests on its capacity for being authentic. This normative idea of authenticity brings unity to Rousseau’s reflections on the negative effects of the social order, on the just political order, on education, and more generally, on ethics. It is also shown to contain important teachings for contemporary Critical Theory, contemporary views of self-constitution (Korsgaard, Frankfurt and Larmore), and contemporary political philosophy.

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