TESTING RECOGNITION

Supporting a person in what (s)he is? An empirical assessment of Honneth's theory of recognition in the light of the encounter with intellectual disability (Down's syndrome and fragile X syndrome)

 Coordinatore INSTITUT FUR SOZIALFORSCHUNG AN DERJOHANN WOLFGANG GOTHE UNIVERSITAT 

 Organization address address: Senckenberganlage 26
city: Frankfurt am Main
postcode: 60325

contact info
Titolo: Mr.
Nome: Guenter
Cognome: Pabst
Email: send email
Telefono: +49 (0)6975618320
Fax: +49 (0)69749907

 Nazionalità Coordinatore Germany [DE]
 Totale costo 0 €
 EC contributo 127˙359 €
 Programma FP7-PEOPLE
Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
 Code Call FP7-PEOPLE-IEF-2008
 Funding Scheme MC-IEF
 Anno di inizio 2009
 Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) 2009-06-01   -   2011-01-31

 Partecipanti

# participant  country  role  EC contrib. [€] 
1    INSTITUT FUR SOZIALFORSCHUNG AN DERJOHANN WOLFGANG GOTHE UNIVERSITAT

 Organization address address: Senckenberganlage 26
city: Frankfurt am Main
postcode: 60325

contact info
Titolo: Mr.
Nome: Guenter
Cognome: Pabst
Email: send email
Telefono: +49 (0)6975618320
Fax: +49 (0)69749907

DE (Frankfurt am Main) coordinator 127˙359.96

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honneth    justice    critical    questions    ethics    recognition    interviews    axel    individual    anerkennung    person    societies    theory    ordinary    prof    inquiry    hypotheses   

 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'The research consists in an empirical test of key statements related to the theory of recognition (Anerkennung) of Axel Honneth. Recognition (Anerkennung) being the fact of "supporting a person in what she or he is". I consider testing Honneth's theory along three questions: (1) What contributes to the process of recognition (Anerkennung)? (2) What are the consequences of recognition (Anerkennung)? (3) What is recognition (Anerkennung) applied to? Each of these questions relates to a set of hypotheses, that either suggest a view that is different from what Honneth's theory describes or relate more tightly to everyday social context The theoretical framework of the proposed research is French pragmatic sociology, that provides concepts for analysing ordinary judgements. The inquiry focuses on the case of persons with intellectual disabilities, because industrial societies, by demanding individual autonomy and economic competitivity, remain extremely excluding for them, and the encounter between a person with such a disability and an "ordinary" person displays major individual differences. I plan a qualitative inquiry based on in-depth semi-structured interviews, recorded and systematically fully transcribed. All of the 9 hypotheses to be tested can be addressed through interviews with parents and with care or education professionals. In order to identify the role played by the legal and institutional environment as well as by the cultural representations, the inquiry includes three countries: France, Belgium and Germany. This research shall contribute to an empirically grounded theory of justice and ethics, in line both with the ambition of Prof. Axel Honneth to carry on the tasks of the Critical Theory and improve our understanding of justice and conflicts in contemporary societies on the one hand, and with the project of Prof. Hille Haker to create a critical ethics of responsibility, whose cornerstone would be the concept of recognition, on the other hand.'

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