Recognition and social struggle: the constituent dimension of conflict as a moral driving force of society

Abstract

The so-called “struggles for recognition” were the protagonists of various debates at the end of the last century and the beginning of this. However, although the concept of "recognition" has remained in authors such as Axel Honneth, the concept of "struggle", for various commentary voices, apparently would have lost relevance in its recent system after the Freedom’s right. In this research, we defend that, on the contrary, although there is a need to make the “struggle” explicit in its system, there is a Hegelian proposal for it, but which, now more than before, is a constitutive part of relations of recognition, which are the fragile fabric of society. Furthermore, after the publication of his latest work, Recognition, we postulate that the only way to understand recognition at this socio-ontological level is by explaining in its definition the constituent dimension of social struggles. In this sense, contrary to general opinion, social struggles may be understood as the moral engine of socio-historical evolution and not as "failures" without social function