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Frankfurt School of Social Research

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The Struggle for Recognition

is elicited by the failure of recognition.

Benjamin's work concurs with and in some respects anticipates Honneth's in claiming that recognition promotes individual agency.25 Like Honneth, Benjamin borrows heavily from D. W. Winnicott's psychoanalytic account of hov the primary caregiver abets the growth of the infant's sense of self. Benjamin also seems to agree with Honneth that aggression is elicited by the failure of recognition, although her view on this point has shifted from her first book to her most recent one. ( 1987, p. 224).

is a theory in which the intention of a philosophically guided diagnosis of the time is combined with an empirically grounded social analysis.

a theory in which the intention of a philosophically guided diagnosis of the time is combined with an empirically grounded social analyis' (Honneth 1985: CoP: 3). (Axel Honneth. By Christopher Zurn)

is the denigration of individual or collective ways of life. It is defined in opposition to status, honor, or dignity.

Not until we consider these, as it were, evaluative forms of disrespect the denigration of individual or collective ways of life do we arrive at the form of behavior ordinarily labeled 'insulting' or 'degrading' today. As we saw, a persons 'honor' or 'dignity', or, to use the modern term, 'status', refers to the degree of social esteem accorded to his or her manner of self-realization within a society's inherited cultural horizon. If this hierarchy of values is so constituted as to downgrade individual forms of life and manners of belief as inferior or deficient, then it robs the subjects in question of every opportunity to attribute social value to their own abilities. (Axel Honneth,The Struggle for Recognition,op. cit., p. 134.)

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