« “Gabba-Gabba we accept you, one of us.” Vulnerability and Power in the Relationship of Recognition »

Estelle Ferrarese (1)

1 DynamE - Dynamiques européennes

Current Hegelian theories of recognition assume a concept of the subject as always being available for harming. This emphasis placed on vulnerability, whose validity is not being called into question as such here, leave a certain number of elements on the nature of the harm threatening the person expecting recognition unclarified, especially the fact that it cannot be perpetrated without the victim being aware. At the same time, it fails to address the nature of the relationship of recognition, omitting from consideration the exercise of power and the mechanisms inherent to this relationship. These omissions, as I show, cause a particular dimension of recognition-driven struggles to be neglected, a dimension which I will refer to as the politics of exit.

Mots clés: Theories of recognition; Vulnerability; Power

Domaines: Philosophie; Science politique; Etudes sur le genre

Estelle Ferrarese. « “Gabba-Gabba we accept you, one of us.” Vulnerability and Power in the Relationship of Recognition ». Constellations, 2009, 16 (4), pp.604-615. ⟨halshs-01433975⟩