Abstract
During the course of our research, we came across several methodological problems. We are not referring so much to the undeniable hermeneutic challenges of understanding and decodifying the women’s language and the way that they perceive and understand their world and their situation. The biggest challenge is, in fact, to find the right stance, not that of a mere impartial and omniscient observer, nor, on the other hand, that of participants who are excessively involved in the phenomena that they are trying to describe. This issue is worthy of considerable discussion before we go on to present our results.
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Adorno (2004, 153)
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We have taken up once more, with some modification, this distinction between the three perspectives of the cycle of lectures about critiques of capitalism by Rahel Jaeggi at the Humboldt-Universität, Berlin in 2010.
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This is precisely the greatest difficulty with a theory of recognition based on the idea that what counts is people’s subjective experience and the objective situation in which they find themselves – this appears to us to be the best critique of Axel Honneth by Nancy Fraser (cf. Fraser and Honneth 2003).
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Translator’s note: It may be seen as a confirmation of the writers’ point that Brazilian Portuguese is especially rich in pejorative terms for describing people of lower classes who they suspect to be of being morally suspicious.
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A transcendent basis for human dignity, as based on the Christian doctrine of humankind’s likeness to God, appears to us to be neither philosophically demonstrable nor sociologically feasible within a secular society.
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This concept receives special attention by Rainer Forst in Forst (2011).
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For more about the theme of invisibility, see Honneth (2003).
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Pinzani, A., Rego, W.L. (2019). Hearing the Voice of the Poor. In: Money, Autonomy and Citizenship. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01361-5_1
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