The presupposition common to the recognition theories sharing a Hegelian source (from Honneth to Taylor to Ricoeur) is that recognition performs a positive and moral function aimed at enabling, to use Honneth’s words, the person’s self-realization and the good life. By going back to the very origins of modern reflection (Hobbes and the Jansenians, but above all Adam Smith and Rousseau), the essay intends to underline the problematic aspects of the claim for recognition, to which contemporary reflection seems to pay little attention. In other words, while it may be true that recognition is indispensable for building identity and that a lack of recognition can harm the person’s identity, causing the wound of exclusion and humiliation, it is equally true that recognition itself (meant as a passion) can lead to a sort of compulsion to pretence and mimesis; and, as a consequence, it can result in the formation of inauthentic identities and pathological forms of the social bond.

Pathologies de la reconnaissance / E. Pulcini. - STAMPA. - (2009), pp. 403-425.

Pathologies de la reconnaissance

PULCINI, ELENA
2009

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The presupposition common to the recognition theories sharing a Hegelian source (from Honneth to Taylor to Ricoeur) is that recognition performs a positive and moral function aimed at enabling, to use Honneth’s words, the person’s self-realization and the good life. By going back to the very origins of modern reflection (Hobbes and the Jansenians, but above all Adam Smith and Rousseau), the essay intends to underline the problematic aspects of the claim for recognition, to which contemporary reflection seems to pay little attention. In other words, while it may be true that recognition is indispensable for building identity and that a lack of recognition can harm the person’s identity, causing the wound of exclusion and humiliation, it is equally true that recognition itself (meant as a passion) can lead to a sort of compulsion to pretence and mimesis; and, as a consequence, it can result in the formation of inauthentic identities and pathological forms of the social bond.
2009
9782271067715
La reconnaissance aujourd'hui
403
425
E. Pulcini
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