Abstract

SAUERWALD, Gregor. Theory of Recognition vs. Theory of Discourse. Estud. filos. práct. hist. ideas [online]. 2006, n.8, pp.145-157. ISSN 1851-9490.

Axel Honneth asks himself if the concept of recognition can assume the function that Jürgen Habermas had attributed to the concept of communication. Thus he places himself in a critical position regarding the thinking tradition he belonged to-the critic theory. He questions the abstract or formal character of the moral theory of the Ethics of Discourse, which ultimately leads to Habermas and Kant. Honneth, on his side, seeks support in the young and almost materialist Hegel of Jena and in the behaviorist G. H. Mead to propose a theory of society, not altogether unempirical, somehow normative (normativ gehaltvoll), equidistant from the formalism of communicative ethics and from the materiality of "communitarism", and going beyond both universalism and relativism.

Keywords : Struggle for recognition; Grammar of social conflicts; Communicative ethics; Communitarism.

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