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Acknowledgements 1 Justice and Recognition and Justice Hrubec, Oliveira, De Sobottka, Saavedra (eds.) PUCRS Nythamar de Oliveira, Marek Hrubec, Emil Sobottka, Giovani Saavedra (eds.) Justice and Recognition F On Axel Honneth and Critical Theory AcknowledgementsAcknowledgements 11 F PUCRS 2 Justice and Recognition Introduction 3 Justice and Recognition 4 Justice and Recognition Introduction 5 Nythamar de Oliveira, Marek Hrubec, Emil Sobottka, Giovani Saavedra (eds.) Justice and Recognition On Axel Honneth and Critical Theory PUCRS, Porto Alegre Filosofia, Prague 2015 6 Justice and Recognition This collection © PUCRS, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, 2015 This collection © Filosofia, publishing house of the Institute of Philosophy of CAS, Prague, 2015 Axel Honneth’s articles © Suhrkamp Verlag, 2012 Copyright of individual articles © held by the individual authors, 2015 Cover and Typography © Markéta Jelenová, 2015 ISBN 978-80-7007-435-0 (print book) ISBN 978-80-7007-698-9 (e-book) DOI 10.47376/filosofia.2015.2 Acknowledgements 7 Table of Contents Acknowledgements . 11 Introduction Nythamar de Oliveira, Marek Hrubec, Emil Sobottka and Giovani Saavedra. 13 I ARTICULATION OF SOCIAL RECOGNITION Recognition and the Right to Difference: Critical Theory, Diversity and the Human Rights Culture Eduardo C. B. Bittar . 27 Affi rmative Action, Recognition, Self-Respect: Axel Honneth and the Phenomenological Defi cit of Critical Theory Nythamar de Oliveira . 49 Honneth and Lacan on the Limits of Recognition Rodrigo Nunes . 73 Recognition and Learning Processes in Modern Societies Emil A. Sobottka . 89 Defl ationary Ontology and Objective Ethics: In Search of the Ontological Assumptions of the Theory of Recognition Eduardo Luft . 105 8 Justice and Recognition II RECOGNITION IN LEGAL JUSTICE The Fabric of Justice: On the Limits of Proceduralism Axel Honneth . 155 Between Civil Society and State: Considerations on Axel Honneth’s Critical Theory of Justice Hans-Georg Flickinger . 181 Legal Good and Recognition: A Study in Axel Honneth’s Social Theory Fabio Roberto D’Avila, Giovani Agostini Saavedra . 199 Minimal Income as Basic Condition for Autonomy Alessandro Pinzani . .223 Recognition and Transitional Justice in Brazil: a Critical Theory Approach on Reasons for a Truth Commission on the Dictatorial Regime of 1964–1985 Vitor S. L. Blotta, Wilson Levy, Brunela Vincenzi . 239 III RECOGNITION IN INTERNATIONAL AND GLOBAL JUSTICE Recognition between States: On the Moral Substrate of International Relations Axel Honneth . .265 Interstate Recognition and Its Global Overcoming: Extra-territorial Recognition Marek Hrubec . .287 Towards a Cosmopolitan Theory of Recognition between States Frédéric Vandenberghe . 325 Introduction 9 IV JUSTICE AND RECOGNITION WITHIN A THEORETICAL CONTEXT Rawls and Habermas on Justice and Pluralism Luiz Bernardo Leite Araujo . 341 Deliberative Democracy and Public Reason Kenneth Baynes . 359 Social Movements and Lifeworld: Making Sense of Subjective Interpretation Hermílio Santos . .399 Rights as Entitlements and Rights as Claims Marco Antonio Oliveira de Azevedo . 423 List of Contributors . .445 Index . .447 10 Justice and Recognition Acknowledgements 11 Acknowledgements Professor Axel Honneth’s theory of recognition and his signifi cant con- tributions to a Critical social theory have been widely read and studied in many parts of the world. One of the strong receptions has been in Latin America, where a Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School has been very infl uential since the 1960s and 1970s, when emancipatory grassroots movements and protests against military rule took place all over the subcontinent. The Fourth International Symposium on Justice, which was held at Porto Alegre, Brazil, brought together researchers, teachers and students from graduate programs in philosophy, legal sciences, social sciences and humanities from Brazil and other Latin American and European countries to discuss ongoing struggles for social justice and recogni- tion in times of crisis and globalization, but also of attempts for more inclusive participation and democratization. Thanks to the decisive support of Brazilian federal research agencies (CAPES and CNPq) and the Goethe Institute at Porto Alegre, the fourth edition of the sympo- sium on justice was launched with a view toward discussing the theo- ry of social recognition of Professor Axel Honneth, whose reception and analysis in Brazil and other Latin American countries has already resulted in intense dialogue with colleagues in Europe and the Ameri- cas. The event featured fi fteen presentations of seminal works with the participation of Axel Honneth, who also presented two lectures and debated with fellow Brazilian colleagues and foreign guests, besides over twenty contributing papers read by researchers in thematic sessions during three days. This volume contains the major contributions to the symposium, including the two papers delivered by Axel Honneth. The book is a result of the co-operation of colleagues from Porto Alegre and Prague, Czech Republic, where one of the relevant confer- ences on Critical Theory has taken place in the Institute of Philosophy at the Czech Academy of Sciences every year since 1993. Axel Hon- neth was one of the conference directors for many years, and has been honorary director till now. On this basis, we will also continue in this co-operation between Latin America and Europe in the future. We thank especially Axel Honneth for the inspiration and for many friendly discussions and continual cooperation during the last years. We are grateful to all our colleagues who contributed their chapters of the 12 Justice and Recognition book, all colleagues who made important commentaries in various dis- cussions, and our institutions which supported our work: the Pontifi cal Catholic University (PUCRS) in Porto Alegre and the Centre of Global Studies, a joint centre of the Institute of Philosophy at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and Charles University in Prague. And of course, we appreciate the work of all the people responsible for the administrative process of the publication of the book as well. The editors Introduction 13 Introduction Nythamar de Oliveira, Marek Hrubec, Emil Sobottka and Giovani Saavedra Justice is an important theme which has been studied for thousands years and is highly important today as well. Critical theorists have been aware of both injustice in practice and the serious defi cits in social re- search of injustice which have been made by various traditional and contemporary studies. Critical theory also makes it possible to develop an alternative description of the society and normative articulation of the required state of society. However, it can be done in various ways. In this book, we offer essays focusing on a connection between injustice and misrecognition, respectively justice and recognition (Anerkennung). Such a formulation of the issue of justice and recognition is closely linked with Axel Honneth as a critical theorist who mostly contribut- ed to philosophical and social scientifi c research on recognition. As is well known, Honneth is a Professor of Social Philosophy and current Director of the Institute for Social Research (Institut für Sozialforschung) at the University of Frankfurt, and primarily one of the most relevant exponents of the third generation of the Frankfurt School.1 Honneth has followed the main constitutive motives of the Frank- furt School worked out by the fi rst generation of critical theorists, and, at the same time, he shares a critique of its monological paradigm of work in favor of an intersubjective turn initiated especially by the sec- ond generation. However, he considers an intersubjective paradigm of communicative action too narrow, and addresses, not just the issues of 1 Axel Honneth was born in 1949. He studied philosophy, sociology and German liter- ature in Bonn and Bochum. He studied post-gradual studies at Freie Universität in Berlin where he defended his dissertation in 1982. He was a scientifi c assistant there from 1977 to 1982 as well. Then, he worked with Jürgen Habermas at Max-Planck-Institute for Social Sciences in Starnberg from 1982 to 1983 and at Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt am Main from 1983 to 1989. Later, he was professor of philosophy at the University of Konstanz from 1991 to 1992, and professor of political philosophy at Freie Universität in Berlin from 1992 to 1996. Since 1996, he is professor of social philosophy at Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt am Main where he is also Director of the Institute for Social Research since 2001. Now he is also professor for the humanities at Columbia University in New York. 14 Justice and Recognition communication, but also of other aspects of life which he articulates by means of a broader concept of mutual recognition among individuals in the community. It is connected with the replacement of a consen- sual concept of communication by a confl ictual concept of struggle for recognition, which well co-responds to the original ideas of the Critical theory formulated by their founders and other social critics. Thus, his own contribution is formulated as a confl ictual paradigm of social recognition within an intersubjective model. However, he also tries to integrate positive moments of earlier paradigms, including a reactualization of Hegel’s philosophy. Honneth has developed an original normative – specifi cally moral – theory of struggle for recognition which is based on identifi cation