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- Title
Perspectivas actuales de la teoría crítica en México y Alemania.
- Authors
Gandle, Stefan
- Abstract
In this essay we compare Axel Honneth's theory of recognition to Bolivar Echeverria's theory of the four historical ethe of capitalist modernity. The theory of recognition may be considered, since its introduction by G. W. F. Hegel, as a clear expression, and at the same time as a description, of that ethos that Echeverria calls "realistic ethos" (and -at least in Hegel- it is also somewhat related with the one called by Echeverria as "classical ethos" and "romantic ethos"). This theory's shortcoming lies in the fact that it naively starts from the idea that within the social formation currently existing, that is, the bourgeoisie /capitalist one, it is possible to achieve recognition of allbers of society, including minorities and those groups that are perceived and treated as minorities, even if they objectively are not. Echeverria's theory of the four historical ethe of modernity (which analyzes, in addition to those already mentioned the baroque ethos) tries to overcome this limitation, upon considering modern forms of coexistence, developed outside Europe and the US.
- Subjects
CRITICAL theory; ECHEVERRIA, Bolivar; HEGEL, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831; MODERNITY; CAPITALISM; ETHOS (The Greek word); HONNETH, Axel, 1949-
- Publication
Espiral, 2012, Vol 19, Issue 53, p33
- ISSN
1665-0565
- Publication type
Essay