ABSTRACT

In his recent book, Recognition: A Chapter in the History of European ideas (2021), Honneth has explained how he understands the French concept of recognition. This article places Honneth's latest interpretation in the context of his long-standing and evolving engagement with French theory over several decades. Honneth acknowledges his significant debt to a French tendency to view recognition as a problem for self-realisation (and not an opportunity). Bourdieu's and Boltanski's account of how ambitions become limited by the availability of capital and the internalisation of class was a major breakthrough in Honneth's intellectual development. Other formative French influences included the articulation of denigration in existentialist phenomenology, and the idea of regulative power in Foucault, with “deconstructive” asymmetrical care presented as productive but comparatively less important. The discussion also reveals why Honneth presents the “German” concept of recognition as having basic explanatory force (as an opportunity for self-realisation), and why he resists what he views as a French-influenced tendency (also present in some contemporary German critical theory) to depict recognition as ambivalent. The discussion reveals, on one hand, how working across perceived divides can be immensely productive, and, on the other hand, why a French-German divide remains entrenched in contemporary thinking.

摘要

在他的新书《认识：欧洲思想史上的一章》中（2021），霍内斯（Honneth）解释了他如何理解法国的承认概念。本文将Honneth的最新解释放在他数十年来长期与法国理论不断发展的交往中。霍尼特（Honneth）承认他对法国倾向于将承认视为实现自我的问题（而不是机遇）的倾向的重大欠债。布迪厄（Bourdieu）和博尔坦斯基（Boltanski）关于雄心如何受到资本的可获得性和阶级内部化的限制的论述，是霍内斯在知识发展上的重大突破。法国的其他形成性影响包括存在主义现象学中的den毁表达，以及福柯的管制权思想，“解构性”非对称护理被认为具有生产性，但相对而言并不那么重要。讨论还揭示了为何霍内斯（Honneth）提出承认具有基本解释力的“德国”概念（作为自我实现的机会），以及为什么他拒绝他认为是法国影响的趋势（也存在于一些当代德国批评家中）理论）来描述承认是矛盾的。讨论一方面揭示了如何跨越可感知的鸿沟产生巨大成果，另一方面揭示了为什么法国-德国鸿沟仍然根深蒂固于当代思想之中。