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Labour, exchange and recognition: Marx contra Honneth

Philosophy Department, University of Winnipeg, Canada

This article explores Marx’s contention that the achievement of full personhood and, not just consequently, but simultaneously, of genuine intersubjectivity depends upon the attainment of recognition for one’s place in the social division of labour, recognition which is systematically denied to some individuals and groups of individuals through the capitalist organization of production and exchange. This reading is then employed in a critique of Axel Honneth’s theory of recognition which, it is argued, cannot account for the systematic obstacles faced by some struggles for recognition.

Key Words: exchange • Jürgen Habermas • Axel Honneth • labour • lifeworld • Karl Marx • recognition • system • E. P. Thompson

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Vol. 35, No. 8, 935-959 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/0191453709340637


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