A luta por reconhecimento em Honneth: perspectivas de uma filosofia social.

Abstract

This work focuses on Honneth's category of recognition in search of perspectives of a social theory. In this sense, Honneth investigates the fundamental assumptions that give rise to the category of recognition as a criterion for justice. Honneth seeks in young Hegel, from Jena, to reinterpret the concept of ethics as the foundation for a social philosophy and presents the category of conflict as the basis of the concept of struggle for social recognition. In this reconstruction, the author also assesses the elements that affect the indeterminacy of individual freedom. This diagnosis allows Honneth to identify the sociological deficit of Critical Theory. To do so, Honneth says that intersubjective conflict allows subjects to seek recognition, that is, it is through the struggle for recognition, and in the pursuit of self-realization of their capacities, that subjects will be able to construct their own autonomy and their integrity. Honneth thus distinguishes the different intersubjective spheres found in the concept of ethics and will present the fundamental principles for the emergence of a social theory motivated by the struggle for social recognition.