De la redistribuire la recunoaștere? Schimbarea de paradigmă din politica contemporană

This article examines Seyla Benhabib’s critique of the shift from redistribution to recognition in contemporary political theory, arguing that her intervention offers an important corrective to multiculturalism while remaining constrained by the assumptions of liberal egalitarianism. Focusing on her engagement with Charles Taylor, Will Kymlicka, and Nancy Fraser, the commentary highlights Benhabib’s insistence that individual authenticity cannot be reduced to collective cultural recognition and that democratic institutions must protect individuals against oppressive group norms. At the same time, the article argues that Benhabib does not fully develop the dialectical implications of these tensions, preferring to reconcile them within the framework of liberal democracy rather than embracing the Hegelian logic of contradiction and historical negativity. It further contends that her account underestimates the extent to which multicultural conflicts are rooted in the material transformations of capitalism, migration, and globalization, thereby limiting the critical potential of her project. Although Benhabib successfully exposes the dangers of cultural essentialism and defends a more democratic understanding of recognition, the article concludes that a genuinely Hegelian-Marxist perspective would require a deeper critique of capitalism, the nation-state, and the historical conditions that generate struggles for recognition themselves. This abstract is generated with artificial intelligence.