Affirmative action, recognition, self-respect
Axel Honneth and the phenomenological deficit of
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4942012 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nythamar De Oliveira (0000-0001-9241-1031, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Publication date | 2009-12-20 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Civitas - Revista de Ciências Sociais (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1519-6089 • E-ISSN: 1984-7289 |
| Publisher | Edipucrs (PUBLISHER • BR) |
| DOI | 10.15448/1984-7289.2009.3.6897 |
| OpenAlex | W1498085972 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 5 |
While liberal, redistributive views seek to correct and compensate for past injustices, by resorting to compensatory, procedural arguments for corrective justice, the recognition-based, communitarian arguments tend to promote by means of social movements and struggles for recognition a society free from prejudice and disrespect. In developing democratic societies such as Brazil, Axel Honneth’s contribution to the ongoing debates on Affirmative Action has been evoked, confirming that the dialectics of recognition does not merely seek a theoretical solution to the structural and economic inequalities that constitute some of their worst social pathologies, but allows for practices of self-respect and subjectivation that defy all technologies of social control, as pointed out in Foucault’s critique of power. The phenomenological deficit of critical theory consists thus in recasting the critique of power with a view to unveiling lifeworldly practices that resist systemic domination
Action (physics · Affirmative action · Critical theory · Democracy · democratic deficit · Dialectic · Economic Justice · Epistemology · Inequality · Law and economics · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Prejudice (legal term · Sociology · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Law · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2019 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |