In the last twenty years, conflict sociology and political sociology have been the areas of social sciences that have most contributed to enrich and deepen the study of violence as a significant phenomenon of human behaviour. This has been especially the case of the findings, detailed analysis and criticisms made by the theory of rational choice, and of the debate among scientists adhering to the various currents of the collective action paradigm. Violence continues to be linked to terms like «frustration», «relative deprivation», «revolution», «crisis», «terrorism» or «collective action». Contrary to what could be expected, we are convinced that this subordination to other human sciences’ basic concepts does not hinder its theoretical elucidation at all, but rather helps to open a wide space for the necessary multidisciplinary debate on violence, in order to become in the ...

In the last twenty years, conflict sociology and political sociology have been the areas of social sciences that have most contributed to enrich and deepen the study of violence as a significant phenomenon of human behaviour. This has been especially the case of the findings, detailed analysis and criticisms made by the theory of rational choice, and of the debate among scientists adhering to the various currents of the collective action paradigm. Violence continues to be linked to terms like «frustration», «relative deprivation», «revolution», «crisis», «terrorism» or «collective action». Contrary to what could be expected, we are convinced that this subordination to other human sciences’ basic concepts does not hinder its theoretical elucidation at all, but rather helps to open a wide space for the necessary multidisciplinary debate on violence, in order to become in the ...

Axel Honneth es sin lugar a dudas el filósofo que ha revitalizado, renovado y sistematizado el lejano concepto hegeliano de reconocimiento (Anerkennung), a través de la psicología social y en diálogo con la Teoría Crítica. De manera que en los diversos saberes y quehaceres actuales venimos viviendo un revival del reconocimiento. En la presente investigación realizamos una presentación del pensamiento de Honneth, a modo de una “dialéctica del reconocimiento”, (Dialektik der Anerkennung). Para lo cual actualizamos sus tres fuentes: conceptuales el reconocimiento en el Hegel del periodo de Jena; procedimentales el reavivamiento de la psicología social de Mead; e instrumentales, heredada por parte de la Teoría Crítica —Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse y Habermas—, respectivamente. De esta forma ingresamos al núcleo de la propuesta de Honneth, donde presenta el concepto de ‘...