Alessandra Campo
Abstract: This article deals with the concepts of recognition in the work of philosopher Judith Butler and psychoanalyst Jessica Benjamin. They both offer interpretations of the famous fourth section of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, and although these two readings raise questions on the same topics, they make use of different conceptual frameworks and achieve heterogeneous results. In particular, this article shows the incapacity of their positions to fully convey, within the notion of recognition, the articulation of an intersubjective/horizontal dimension and an infrasubjective/vertical one. Like those philosophers identified with “negative thought”, Butler and Benjamin draw almost exclusively … Continua a leggere