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Germán David Arroyo
Universidad Católica de Córdoba - FONCyT
Argentina
https://orcid.org/0009-0001-2810-9660
Biography
Juan Manuel Saharrea
Universidad Católica de Córdoba-CONICET
Argentina
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4149-5428
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Claudio Marcelo Viale
Universidad Católica de Córdoba-CONICET
Argentina
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3968-1646
Biography
Vol. 44 No. 1 (2025), Studies
https://doi.org/10.15304/ag.44.1.9758
Submitted: 2024-03-04| Published: 2025-03-26

Abstract

This paper analyzes the recovery of John Dewey's political philosophy by Axel Honneth. The aim of the paper is twofold. In the first place, it seeks to show that said recovery is directly associated with two crucial affinities that Honneth finds between the philosophies of Dewey and Hegel. Secondly, it argues that Honneth's interpretation tends to underestimate the dimension of social conflict in Dewey's work, which represents an obstacle to a possible recovery of his theory of democracy today. The hypothesis supported is that Honneth's harmonicist reading of Dewey has to do more with his own theoretical interests than with a genuine interpretation of Dewey's philosophy.