O estatuto do reconhecimento e o reconhecimento ideológico na teoria crítica de Axel Honneth

Abstract

This dissertation analyzes the status of recognition, as well as recognition as an ideology in the version of Critical Theory developed by Axel Honneth. Based on the criticism that the author's conception of recognition received from his contemporary interlocutors, the reflections carried out here focus on the specificities of one of the distortions of recognition - ideological recognition - which, instead of broadening the horizons of the subjects, can contradictorily contribute to strengthen their submission and domination processes. The work resulted from a systematic research of diachronic nature, interested in the apprehension of social changes and processes underlying the different temporalities of the ideology criticism within the Frankfurt Critical Theory. As an approach, we favored the use of a “descriptive reconstruction”, which made it possible to highlight aspects present at the very heart of the theory analyzed as evidence (at theoretical and methodological levels) of potential responses to the criticism received. Although the critique of ideology has a central place in the theoretical production of first and second generation Frankfurt scholars, in Axel Honneth's work this issue does not seem to gain greater importance than tangential spaces as responses to the direct criticism directed at his first theoretical version. The situation that changes considerably in a second moment of Honnethian production, in which it is possible to evidence the author's efforts to address issues in which the theme of ideology is transversalized. In the search for understanding how Axel Honneth considers the contradictions, tensions, challenges and dilemmas implicit in the horizons of his theoretical project, it was found that the connection of the theme of ideology in his work arises with the most recent interests of the scholar in analyzing how pathologies social, reification and social paradoxes in connection with specific moments of contemporary societies.