The shock point of morality: communicative action, recognition and redistribution - Habermas, Honneth and Fraser

Abstract

Morality has long been the fruit of intense debates in social theory. At the same time, these debates present themes and approaches that are becoming more and more important. A crucial part of these contemporary issues comes from the debate developed by Nancy Fraser and Axel Honneth on the concepts of redistribution and recognition. Starting from diverse positions on the weight of morality within its theoretical models, as well as the weight of recognition and redistribution, They debate about the foundations of social theory thinking, in both cases, in comprehensive theories, which serve as important Matrices for a critical sociology in the wake of the tradition of a critical theory. The common ground of both? The criticism of Habermas. I will map the Habermasian thinking on morals and then the criticisms of Honneth and Fraser to the author, in the end, to try to outline a sociology based on the dualism of Fraser.