Recognition as a counter hegemonic strategy
Building on the analyses of cultural hegemony in the works of Nancy Fraser and Wendy Brown, I argue in the paper that the historic bloc (order of cultural hegemony) of post-Fordist capitalism is characterized by a particular dynamic between several ‘axes’ of hegemony that gives rise to the...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | deu |
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Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, Belgrade
2023-01-01
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| Series: | Filozofija i Društvo |
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| Online Access: | https://doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0353-5738/2023/0353-57382302257I.pdf |
| Summary: | Building on the analyses of cultural hegemony in the works of Nancy Fraser
and Wendy Brown, I argue in the paper that the historic bloc (order of
cultural hegemony) of post-Fordist capitalism is characterized by a
particular dynamic between several ‘axes’ of hegemony that gives rise to the
‘paradox of engagement/disengagement’. The ‘progressive-expertocratic’ axis
of hegemony creates a subject-position of the ‘engaged self’, a figure
embodying a certain promise of political agency that is simultaneously
obstructed by other, depoliticizing axes of hegemony. This dynamic is
conducive to the rise of contemporary right-wing authoritarianism, which
purports to fulfill this promise of political agency through a series of
displacements - the counterhegemonic left, I argue, has so far not
formulated an effective alternative to this strategy. In the second part, I
explore the potential of Axel Honneth’s theory of recognition, in particular
his concept of ‘interpersonal respect’, for grounding a left strategy of
connecting (mutually articulating) the hegemonic figure of the ‘engaged
self’ with a progressive politics of social transformation. To that end, I
elaborate Honneth’s perspective by means of an argument about the role of
trust in the context of societal crises that Igor Cvejić, Srđan Prodanović
and I have recently formulated. |
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| ISSN: | 0353-5738 2334-8577 |