Recognition as Critical theory? : The formulation of Axel Honneth / Reconhecimento como Teoria Critica? : a formulação de Axel Honneth

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2009

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The theme of this dissertation is the reconstruction of the Critical Theory of Society through the formulation of a model of theory of recognition by the German philosopher and sociologist Axel Honneth. For that, it was made an investigation of his work grounded in the heritage Honneth received from that tradition, as founded in the 1930s by Max Horkheimer and his colleagues of the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt, and also in the revisions and critics to Critical Theory in subsequent decades, mainly those of Jürgen Habermas. Thus, it was possible to find the relations of rupture and continuity between the theoretical model developed by Honneth and the theoretical tradition to which he claims affiliation. Later, the model of Honneth itself was the subject of the investigation, with particular emphasis on its reconstruction of the typology developed by Hegel to the idea of recognition. This movement, central to the theory of recognition, leads to the typologies of recognition (love, rights and solidarity) and disrespect (violence, denial of rights and denigration or insult), which represent, according to the author, social relations guided by normative expectations of the subjects involved. When these are disrespected, comes to field a struggle for recognition. Finally, after examining the construction of Honneth s model, this also was confronted with some of the criticisms and objections that their ideas brought to social debates, through the study of his discussion with Nancy Fraser and her theory of redistribution in order to open a debate about the present forms of reconstructing Critical Theory

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critical theory recognition (philosophy) teoria crítica reconhecimento (filosofia)

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