La théorie de la reconnaissance d’Axel Honneth et le problème de la chair. Aux limites de la reconnaissance

Abstract

French phenomenology, and especially the philosophy of Levinas, is committed to criticizing the struggle for recognition as a philosophy that seeks to reduce the “Other” to the “Same”. Is this criticism valid for the Honnethian re-actualization of the struggle for recognition? Our position is that even if Honneth commits to a re-actualization of intersubjective recognition that highlights the importance of otherness, this gesture turns out to be insufficient; especially in relation to the phenomenological place that in the philosophy of Lévinas, Henry and Merleau-Ponty takes the flesh as well as the vulnerability.