REIFICATION AND THE THEORY OF RECOGNITION: A STUDY OF HONNETH

This study aims to investigate how reification is involved in Honnethian theory and some possible developments for recognition. The method used in the text is dialectical. The technique is based on a bibliographical review and qualitative analysis of secondary studies. Initially, the way in which reification is understood, above all from Görg Lukács' theory, will be elaborated in broad terms. Subsequently, the way in which Honneth incorporates the concept of reification into his theory of recognition will be highlighted. At the end of the text, Honneth's incorporation of reification as the forgetting of recognition, as formulated by the sociologist, will be problematized. The result indicates that the categorical framework of recognition as reification unfolds in a double face, attributing reification as the forgetting of recognition, but delimiting the ambivalence that reification plays in the roles reproduced in social relations. The conclusion of the study is that reification interpreted in the light of the theory of recognition, as much as it provides an innovative interpretative framework, ends up limiting the ambivalence that reification plays in social relations.