Showing papers in "Critical Horizons in 2021"
TL;DR: In this paper, Honneth's normative theory of recognition and Bourdieu's critical sociology of domination are compared. But, through a close and nuanced reading of their works, the authors suggest that, in spite of this...
Abstract: Current debates on recognition and domination tend to be characterized by two polarized positions. Where the “anti-recognition” camp views recognition as a tool for establishing and reproducing relations of power, the “pro-recognition” camp conceives it as a way for dominated individuals and social groups to lay stake to intersubjective relations that are more just. At first glance, Honneth’s normative theory of recognition and Bourdieu’s critical sociology of domination also divide along these lines. Honneth takes the pro-recognition stance, criticizing the French sociologist for adopting a “fragmented” conception of the social world that ignores the “moral consensus” underlying each claim for mutual recognition. In contrast, Bourdieu accuses the German philosopher of endorsing an “enchanted” view of the social world that misrecognizes the way that recognition perpetuates symbolic domination. However, through a close and nuanced reading of their works, this article suggests that, in spite of this...
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TL;DR: In this paper, the immanent and progressive character of ideology critique are rooted in the connection between its explanatory and its normative tasks, and they argue that this claim can be cashed in.
Abstract: On Jaeggi's reading, the immanent and progressive character of ideology critique are rooted in the connection between its explanatory and its normative tasks. I argue that this claim can be cashed ...
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors critically evaluate Rahel Jaeggi's concept of form of life and the question of why one should want to criticize forms of life or society in the first place.
Abstract: The paper critically evaluates Rahel Jaeggi’s concept of form of life. Particularly, it deals with the question of why one should want to criticize forms of life or society in the first place. Whil...
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TL;DR: In this paper, a critical analysis of Rahel Jaeggi's recent philosophical contribution to a critical theory of capitalism is presented, based on the account of Lebensform, life-form, that bui...
Abstract: The article critically discusses Rahel Jaeggi’s recent philosophical contribution to a critical theory of capitalism. The first part reconstructs Jaeggi’s account of Lebensform, life-form, that bui...
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TL;DR: Ernst Bloch is a philosopher of hope, of this there can be no doubt as mentioned in this paper and it is the fidelity to the proposition that a better world is possible that undergirds Bloch's work.
Abstract: Ernst Bloch is a philosopher of hope, of this there can be no doubt. It is the fidelity to the proposition that a better world is possible that undergirds Bloch’s work. Yet, the hopeful tenor of Bl...
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyse Rahel Jaeggi's socio-ontological account of forms of life and show that her framework is a two-sided one, since it involves an understanding of form of life both as inert b...
Abstract: In this paper, I analyse Rahel Jaeggi’s socio-ontological account of forms of life. I show that her framework is a two-sided one, since it involves an understanding of forms of life both as inert b...
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that Rahel Jaeggi's objections to Walzer's model of internal critique are in many respects inconsistent, and above all that these objections are a sign of a political deficit.
Abstract: The paper aims to show that Rahel Jaeggi's objections to Walzer's model of internal critique are in many respects inconsistent, and above all that these objections are a sign of a political deficit...
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TL;DR: The authors examine Axel Honneth's account of social freedom by paying particular attention to the conceptual apparatus of normative reconstruction that is supposed to lend social free speech to the general public, and examine its relationship with social freedom.
Abstract: This article critically examines Axel Honneth’s account of social freedom by paying particular attention to the conceptual apparatus of normative reconstruction that is supposed to lend social free...
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors offer both an interpretation and a critique of the epistemological foundations underlying one of the most recent approaches to trauma studies, Cultural Trauma Theory (CTT).
Abstract: This paper aims to offer both an interpretation and a critique of the epistemological foundations underlying one of the most recent approaches to trauma studies: cultural trauma theory. After the F...
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TL;DR: An immanent critique of capitalism as a form of life: this is one of the crucial points of the new critical theory proposed by Rahel Jaeggi, and it is to this conceptual point, which includes vario...
Abstract: An immanent critique of capitalism as a form of life: this is one of the crucial points of the new critical theory proposed by Rahel Jaeggi, and it is to this conceptual point, which includes vario...
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TL;DR: For Honneth, social normality is a normative resource, even if it is only accessible through the study of pathology as discussed by the authors, and socially accepted norms are taken to reflect legitimate principles.
Abstract: Axel Honneth deploys the categories of normal and pathological to explain contemporary society in organic terms. This article concerns itself with how these medical references function in Honneth's work to explain the social world, and what their political implications are. For Honneth, social normality is a normative resource, even if it is only accessible through the study of pathology. Socially accepted norms are taken to reflect legitimate principles, with the early Honneth taking pathology as an individual psychic suffering that results from injustice, and the later Honneth taking pathology as an overextension of the logic of one social sphere (e.g. law) into the terrain of another (e.g. ethics). The implications of Honneth's organic account of society are explored through the lens of a competing “French” account of the norm offered by Canguilhem and Foucault. These French thinkers view socially accepted norms not as reflecting legitimate principles, but as standardizing processes of normaliz...
TL;DR: In his recent book, Recognition: A Chapter in the History of European ideas (2021), Honneth has explained how he understood the French concept of recognition as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: In his recent book, Recognition: A Chapter in the History of European ideas (2021), Honneth has explained how he understands the French concept of recognition. This article places Honneth's latest ...
TL;DR: The Lacanian theory describes the subject in terms of split and lack as discussed by the authors, and it does so by illustrating the process by which the subject becomes constructed. In the present article, I critically engage wi...
Abstract: The Lacanian theory describes the subject in terms of split and lack. It does so by illustrating the process by which the subject becomes constructed. In the present article, I critically engage wi...
TL;DR: In this article, the effectiveness of Adorno's concept of mimesis for an analysis of extreme violence and for a defence of democratic institutions against possible regre re-regimes is discussed.
Abstract: In this paper, I will offer some examples of the effectiveness of Adorno’s concept of mimesis for an analysis of extreme violence and for a defence of democratic institutions against possible regre...
TL;DR: The authors examines the role of shame as a motivator to engage in social struggles and introduces a distinction between social and moral shame arguing that, while the former can lead to moral shame, the latter can lead t...
Abstract: The paper examines the role of shame as a motivator to engage in social struggles. The author first introduces a distinction between social and moral shame arguing that, while the former can lead t...
TL;DR: This paper argued that we are facing "the radical empiricist onslaught" which he considered to be "the academic counterpart of the socially required behavior" and pointed out the need for "social required behavior".
Abstract: Over fifty years have passed since Marcuse asserted that we are facing “the radical empiricist onslaught”, which he considered to be “the academic counterpart of the socially required behavior”. Re...
TL;DR: According to Max Horkheimer, a critical theory of society has to fulfil two tasks: the elimination of social injustice and the critical reflection of its own conceptual means as discussed by the authors, and it is based on this definit...
Abstract: According to Max Horkheimer, a critical theory of society has to fulfil two tasks: the elimination of social injustice and the critical reflection of its own conceptual means. Based on this definit...
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors try to demystify the unilateral image of silence as a sign of repression or oppression, and as such, the result of forces hostile to democracy.
Abstract: Silence is often considered under the sign of repression or oppression, and as such, the result of forces hostile to democracy. In this paper we will try to demystify that unilateral image of silen...
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors define what it means to practice a theory of recognition within the discipline of philosophy, across an initially acrimonious French-German divide, Axel Honneth's effort to recognise the value of cont...
Abstract: What does it mean to practice a theory of recognition within the discipline of philosophy? Across an initially acrimonious French-German divide, Axel Honneth’s effort to recognise the value of cont...
TL;DR: In this article, the originality of Jaeggi's contribution to recent debates in critical theory clearly emerges if one compares her approach with what in many ways represents its antece...
Abstract: This article aims to show how the originality of Jaeggi’s contribution to recent debates in critical theory clearly emerges if one compares her approach with what in many ways represents its antece...
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the way in which Rahel Jaeggi's conception of forms of life as inert bundles of practices is connected to the problem of the possibility of an immanent critique of life.
Abstract: This paper aims at examining the way in which Rahel Jaeggi’s conception of forms of life as inert bundles of practices is connected to the problem of the possibility of an immanent critique of life...
TL;DR: In this paper, a significant portion of the modern historiography of ancient philosophy tends to discredit the ethical frameworðor of the subject, and Foucault pointed out that a large portion of modern history tends to do so.
Abstract: In his 1981–82 lectures The Hermeneutics of the Subject, Michel Foucault claims that a significant portion of the modern historiography of ancient philosophy tends to discredit the ethical framewor...
TL;DR: The authors compare affinities in Walter Benjamin and Rosi Braidotti's historiographical methodologies, focusing on a monadic/nomadic perception of history, and find that the similarities between the two methods are different.
Abstract: This article compares affinities in Walter Benjamin and Rosi Braidotti’s historiographical methodologies, focusing on a monadic/nomadic perception of history. For Benjamin and Braidotti questions o...
TL;DR: The classical theory of sovereignty describes sovereignty as absolute and undivided yet no early modern state could claim such features as discussed by the authors, and the historical record instead suggests that sovereignty was alwa...
Abstract: The classical theory of sovereignty describes sovereignty as absolute and undivided yet no early modern state could claim such features. Historical record instead suggests that sovereignty was alwa...
TL;DR: Focusing on the philosophical puzzle of time and its relation with being and presence, the authors explores the volatile relationalities un/tying them in shaping our conceptualisation of memory as re-...
Abstract: Focusing on the philosophical puzzle of time and its relation with being and presence the paper explores the volatile relationalities un/tying them in shaping our conceptualisation of memory as re-...
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the Hegelian opposition between institutions of police and corporations, leading to the objective spirit formed in the notion of the State, and contrast both of Hegel's institut...
Abstract: The article discusses the Hegelian opposition between institutions of Police and Corporation, leading to the objective spirit formed in the notion of the State. Juxtaposing both of Hegel's institut...
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors demonstrate that the concept of resistance (Widerstand) is fundamental in order to understand Schelling's account of freedom, arguing that Schelling, in his early works, con...
Abstract: In this paper, I demonstrate that the concept of resistance (Widerstand) is fundamental in order to understand Schelling’s account of freedom. First, I argue that Schelling, in his early works, con...
TL;DR: In this paper, Rundell's Kant explores the themes of imagination, anthropology and freedom across the entire Kantian corpus and casts a revealing light on Kant's conception of the imagination.
Abstract: John Rundell’s Kant explores the themes of imagination, anthropology and freedom across the entire Kantian corpus. The book casts a revealing light on Kant’s conception of the imagination. It does ...
TL;DR: In this paper, the normative and the crypto-normative from polemical contexts in which they have been deployed as charges to study them in their more affirmative dimensions are extracted.
Abstract: The present article extracts the normative and the crypto-normative from the polemical contexts in which they have been deployed as charges to study them in their more affirmative dimensions. Polem...
TL;DR: Based on Honneth's distinction of recognition in love, respect and social esteem, the social suffering of refugees is criticized in this article as an experience of disrespect, which is the case in many cases of refugees.
Abstract: Based on Honneth's distinction of recognition in love, respect and social esteem, the social suffering of refugees is criticized in this contribution as an experience of disrespect. In the first pa...