Monismo social ou moral? Dos pressupostos teórico-sociais da teoria do reconhecimento de Axel Honneth

Social or moral monism? On the social-theoretical pressupositions of Axel Honneth's theory of recognition

  • Este artigo visa compreender o estatuto do monismo do reconhecimento proposto por Axel Honneth, por meio de uma análise da relação estabelecida por ele entre reconstrução normativa e descrição social. Tendo esse objetivo, procuraremos inicialmente mostrar que, para reabrir o domínio do social e identificar um interesse mais realista à emancipação na sociedade, Honneth enfatiza a importância dos padrões institucionalizados do reconhecimento e das lutas morais no interior de todos os processos de reprodução social. Retomando, em seguida, algumas das críticas dirigidas a ele dessa perspectiva, argumentaremos que, nos momentos em que afirma que o funcionamento da economia pode ser compreendido a partir da teoria do reconhecimento, Honneth ignora a especificidade dos mecanismos econômicos de reprodução. Estendendo esse argumento às várias dimensões da reprodução social, mobilizaremos então diferentes autores para mostrar que, nas passagens em que defende que o desenvolvimento da sociedade está ancorado nos três padrões normativos de reconhecimento, Honneth parece fundir o nível da reconstrução normativa com o da descrição social, negligenciando com isso as relações de poder que permeiam a realidade social. Explicitando, por fim, a estratégia negativa de reconstrução utilizada por Honneth, concluímos o artigo mostrando como, ao partir das experiências de desrespeito, ele recusa as acusações de que o monismo do reconhecimento possui pretensões descritivas e lhe atribui um estatuto moral.
  • This paper aims to understand the character of Axel Honneth’s recognition monism, by analyzing the relationship he establishes between normative reconstruction and social description. At first, we will show that, to reopen the domain of the social and to identify a more realistic emancipation interest in society, Honneth tends to over emphasize, in early works, the importance of institutionalized recognition patterns and of moral struggles to all social reproduction processes. Resuming, in a second step, some criticisms directed to him because of that, we argue that, every time he states that the economy can be understood as a recognition order, Honneth overlooks the specificity of economic mechanisms of reproduction. Extending this argument to the various dimensions of social reproduction, we mobilize different authors to claim that, when he argues that the development of society is directly anchored on normative recognition patterns, Honneth seems to merge the level of normative reconstruction with that of social description and to attribute a social-theoretical status to his recognition monism. Drawing attention, in the last sections, to a change in Honneth’s argumentative strategy, once he claims, in his second contribution to Redistribution or Recognition?, that his monism has a moral not a social-theoretical character, we analyze his negative reconstruction strategy, that is, the strategy to draw on a phenomenology of the experiences of disrespect to reconstruct the normative recognition expectations held by the subjects. Pinpointing, at last, to the abandonment of this solution since Suffering from Indeterminacy, we suggest that Honneth’s current solution consists in the development of a new conception of normative reconstruction, thought which he aims to reconstruct the normative structure of modern societies’ institutions without claiming that these correspond to them.

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Author:Nathalie Bressiani
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-560750
DOI:https://doi.org/10.5007/1677-2954.2016v15n1p169
ISSN:1677-2954
Parent Title (Portuguese):Ethic@
Publisher:Universidade Federal Santa Catarina
Place of publication:Florianópolis
Document Type:Article
Language:Portuguese
Date of Publication (online):2016/09/02
Date of first Publication:2016/09/02
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2020/10/26
Tag:Axel Honneth; Experience of disrespect; Normative reconstruction; Recognition; Social theory
Axel Honneth; Experiência de Desrespeito; Reconhecimento; Reconstrução Normativa; Teoria Social
Volume:15
Issue:1
Page Number:22
First Page:169
Last Page:190
HeBIS-PPN:47252092X
Institutes:Gesellschaftswissenschaften / Gesellschaftswissenschaften
Philosophie und Geschichtswissenschaften / Philosophie
Angeschlossene und kooperierende Institutionen / Institut für Sozialforschung (IFS)
Dewey Decimal Classification:1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 10 Philosophie / 100 Philosophie und Psychologie
3 Sozialwissenschaften / 30 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie / 300 Sozialwissenschaften
Sammlungen:Universitätspublikationen
Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - Namensnennung-Nicht kommerziell - Keine Bearbeitung 4.0