06/05/2026
Wij zetten de DRIFT-traditie voort! Ook tijdens de aankomende editie wordt er een traplezing gegeven, die verzorgd wordt door een aankomend filosofisch talent. Ditmaal is Daniel Sarić te zien!
Daniel Sarić is a graduate student of philosophy at the University of Amsterdam. His research interests lie within the fields of Hegelian philosophy, existentialism, and psychoanalysis, with a particular focus on their conceptual intersections – especially the concepts of subjectivity, freedom, anxiety, and creativity. His current project reconsiders the role of alienation in Hegel’s philosophy, arguing against interpretations that primarily treat alienation as a deficit or pathology. In it he researches the constitutive role alienation plays in grounding recognition and considers it a condition of possibility for freedom, social bonds, and collective struggle.
Achieving Truth in Another: Towards a Dialectical Conception of Recognition
Contemporary debates on recognition are organized around two opposed paradigms, exemplified by the exchange between Axel Honneth and Judith Butler in Recognition and Ambivalence (2021). An optimistic tradition, running from Hegel through Kojève to Honneth, conceives recognition as a condition of freedom whose distortions can be overcome through social progress. A pessimistic line, developed through Althusser, Foucault, and Butler, emphasizes recognition’s ambivalence and entanglement with power. I argue that both approaches are insufficient insofar as they overlook alienation as a central condition for recognition. I propose a third, dialectical, conception of recognition in which alienation is not to be ultimately overcome, but a condition for freedom.
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