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An Adornian Theory of Recognition? A Critical Response to Axel Honneth’s Reification: A New Look at an Old Idea

2011; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 19; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/09672559.2011.539369

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Roger Foster,

Critical Theory and Philosophy

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1 Axel Honneth, Reification: A New Look at an Old Idea, trans. J. Ganahl (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008). Hereafter cited in the text as R. This work is a revised version of his 2005 Tanner lectures. 2 ‘Anerkennende Erkenntnis. Eine normative Theorie des Gebrauchs von Begriffen’, in his Adornos Philosophie der Kontemplation (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 2004), pp. 42–63. 3 Ibid., p. 52. 4 Theodor Adorno, Ästhetische Theorie (Frankfurt am Main: Surhkamp, 1970), p. 104; English translation: Aesthetic Theory, trans. Robert Hullot Kentor (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1997), p. 66. Hereafter cited in the text as AT, followed by the German and English page numbers. 5 Negative Dialektik (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1966), p. 62. Hereafter cited in the text as ND. 6 Stanley Cavell, In Quest of the Ordinary: Lines of Skepticism and Romanticism (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988), p. 5. 7 ‘Anerkennende Erkenntnis. Eine normative Theorie des Gebrauchs von Begriffen’, p. 63. 8 Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno, Dialektik der Aufklärung (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1981), p. 56. 9 Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morality, trans. C. Diethe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), §2:1. Hereafter cited in the text as GM. 10 Theodor Adorno, Minima Moralia (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1951), p. 100. 11 On the Genealogy of Morality, §3:13. 12 Karl Marx, ‘Ökonomische‐philosophische Manuskripte aus dem Jahre 1844’, in Marx–Engels Werke, Ergänzung 1 (Berlin: Dietz Verlag, 1968), p. 540. 13 Ibid., p. 539. 14 When repression is unsuccessful, it creates symptoms, that is, visible signs that derive from a re‐channelling of the wishes that underwent repression. See the ‘Introductory Lectures on Psycho‐analysis’, in Sigmund Freud, Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works, trans. J. Strachey (London: Hogarth Press, 1916–17), Vol. 16, p. 298. 15 ‘Five Lectures on Psychoanalysis’, in Freud, Standard Edition, Vol. 11, p. 24. 16 Stanley Cavell, The Claim of Reason (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979), p. 207. 17 See Stanley Cavell, ‘The Avoidance of Love: A Reading of King Lear’, in Must we Mean What we Say? (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976), pp. 267–353. 18 See Dialektik der Aufklärung, p. 32. 19 Erich Fromm, Beyond the Chains of Illusion: My Encounter with Freud and Marx (New York: Continuum, 1962), p. 74. 20 I refer primarily to his The Struggle for Recognition: The Moral Grammar of Social Conflicts, trans. J. Anderson (Oxford: Polity Press, 1995).