Honneth as a Reader of Sartre. On the Limits of the Honnethian Interpretation of Sartre’s Paradigm of Recognition

Abstract

After tracing the way in which Honneth interprets Sartre’s theory of intersubjectivity and seeing how it is essentially based on the consideration of Being and Nothingness, this article aims to discuss some of the theses of the Sartrian paradigm of recognition that emerge in the Critique of Dialectical Reason, in particular those relating to the “groupe en fusion”, that elude the Honnethian interpretation. It can be concluded that Sartre’s last philosophical work is decisive in the effort to conceptualise recognition, because it offers a more articulate and complex understanding of the social world.

Keywords

• Honneth
• Sartre
• Theories of recognition
• Social Philosophy