Reconhecimento ideológico e intimidades políticas

Abstract

This article aims at presenting and questioning the fragilities of the reflections about ideological recognition carried out by the philosopher Axel Honneth, being the main one the negation of the private sphere as a space permeated by power relations. Initially, it will be resumed the theoretical route developed by Honneth to conceive the idea of ideological recognition. Then, it will be presented specific critiques developed by some philosophers towards these Honnethian reflections. In my point of view, the more relevant and forceful one is the critique which points out the depoliticization of the private both in The struggle for recognition and in Recognition ans ideology. When Honneth denies that the private sphere is also permeated by power relations, he makes invisible experiences of recognition constituted in the private sphere and capable of provoking subjection, domination, coercion and submission, for example. Approaching private sphere in its political complexity is, therefore, the way that should be walked by a critical theory whose main goal is illuminating the most variagated shades of social experiences of suffering.