Notes for a politics of affections based on a critique of the recognition’s anthropology of Marcel Henaff

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Cristóbal Balbontin-Gallo, Dr.

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Our purpose in the present text is to present the politics of recognition of Marcel Henaff, and in a second moment to submit it to criticism in order to obtain a theoretical performance that allows us to outline a political theory of the affects associated with the ethnography of the ceremonial gift and the recognition that is mobilized through it. Our thesis is that the ceremonial gift allows us to notice that a solid political community with well achieved social integration mechanisms, implies alliances —to say it in Henaff's terms— that are fundamentally organized not on the basis of common rules or universal principles of justice, but on the basis of inter-subjective affects "among" others, as a form of political recognition that is ultimately the decisive element that makes possible and preserves in time the possibility of life in common among different people.

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Balbontin-Gallo, C. (2021). Notes for a politics of affections based on a critique of the recognition’s anthropology of Marcel Henaff. Revista Stultifera, 4(1), 81–107. https://doi.org/10.4206/rev.stultifera.2021.v4n1-05
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Cristóbal Balbontin-Gallo, Dr., Universidad Austral de Chile, Chile.

Doctor en filosofía por la Université Paris Nanterre-Universität Johann Wolfgang Goethe y Master en Philosophie, Université Paris Nanterre. Francia. Trabaja como Profesor Auxiliar del Instituto de Derecho Público en la Universidad Austral de Chile.