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Machado de Assis and the struggle for recognition

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AutorHugo Schayer Sabino
Ocupação do AutorPh.D. student at PUC, Minas. Professor at UNA, Betim
Páginas990-994
990 • XXVI World Congress of Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy
knjizevnost/umetnicka/proza/bstankovic-krv.html, accessed 2.7.2013.
Machado de Assis and the
struggle for recognition
Hugo Schayer Sabino1
Abstract: The paper deals with the struggle for recognition, as presented by
Axel Honneth, and connects his considerations to the possibility of recognition
as a result of disrespect.
Keywords: Recognition – Disrespect – Literature.
1. Introduction:
Axel Honneth´s The Struggle for Recognition: The Moral Gram-
mar of Social Conicts (1999) deals with de possibilities of human and
social development in contrast with the construction of identities and
conicts.
The book is divided in three parts. The rst deals with history
and its contents, in a Hegelian perspective. The second part deals with
the systematic update of this perspective. The nal part deals with mor-
als, social evolution and social philosophy.
This essay focus on the second part and specially on Item 6 of
it, which deals with personal identity and disrespect: violation, rights
denial and degradation. The paper main objective is to check Honneth’s
methods mentioned in the chapter are sucient to match all the hypoth-
esis risen in the chapter.
In order to do so, three short stories by Machado de Assis are
use. The disrespect forms mentioned by Honneth will be sought in the
short stories and therefore compared with the models he proposes.
In order to do so, a short explanation about the item 6 in the sec-
ond part of the book is given.
Item 5 in part 2 of Honneth’s book is also mentioned, as it deals
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Ph.D. student at PUC – Minas. Professor at UNA - Betim.

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