Beyond the Politics of Recognition. Arendt, Cavell and the Reappraisal of the Relationship between Identity and Recognition

Journal title TEORIA POLITICA
Author/s Davide Sparti
Publishing Year 2005 Issue 2005/2
Language Italian Pages 24 P. File size 68 KB
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This paper, inspired by Hannah Arendt’s ontology of the human situation and by Stanley Cavell’s notion of acknowledgement, offers a grammatical account of what it means both to be recognized more justly, and to approach the normative question how should we recognize?. By showing that identity (the identity of a person or of a group) is not a given set of features that should be faithfully recognized, and that recognition is an act that has performative implications, the paper criticizes both the ideal of a mutual recognition and the politics of recognition as proposed by Charles Taylor and Axel Honneth, and goes on to suggest an alternative picture based on the concept of acknowledgement.

Davide Sparti, Oltre la politica del riconoscimento. Per una rilettura del nesso identità/riconoscimento a partire da Hannah Arendt e Stanley Cavell in "TEORIA POLITICA" 2/2005, pp , DOI: