L' anthropologie sociale de Parcours de la reconnaissance, vecteur de la critique ricoeurienne de la société de marché

Authors

  • Pierre-Olivier Monteil

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5195/errs.2025.708

Keywords:

capitalism, ideology, market, recognition, social anthropology

Abstract

In The Course of Recognition, Ricœur criticizes, with the support of Honneth’s reactualization of Hegel’s criticism of Hobbes, the market society. In place of the struggle for survival, he substitutes a moral motivation which humanizes the entire political project. In order to prevent the search for recognition from being insatiable, he englobes it into a gift economy, in order to balance merchant reciprocity with the gratuitousness of agape. By enlarging self-consciousness with the capacity to remember and to promise, Ricœur enables us to think socialization in terms of temporality and Freudian sublimation. Confronted by the resentment of losers as well as the headlong rush of winners, he invites us to reshape our common membership to society by rethinking our European heritage.

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Published

2026-02-19

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Vol. 16 No. 2 (2025): Contemporary Challenges confronted by Critical Hermeneutics: Ricœurian perspectives

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