https://doi.org/10.25058/20112742.n59.08
Miguel Ángel Nación Pantigoso
Universidad Nacional Federico Villareal, Perú
Abstract:
This article analyzes the ontological limits of G. W. F. Hegel’s dialectics of recognition in light of Frantz Fanon’s decolonial critique. Through a philosophical-hermeneutic and critical-comparative approach, we argue that the “category of race” operates as an epidermal-racial schema blocking intersubjective reciprocity, confining colonized subjects an a “non-being zone.” Our analysis shows that the Hegelian proposal, focusing in the mediation of work and the desire for recognition presupposes a nonexistent basic ontological symmetry in the colonial relationship, where any encounter is marked by a prior denial of the other’s humanity. Instead of Rather than seeking to conform to the Western canon, this work proposes a conceptual “sabotage” and a productive “cannibalization” of the Hegelian legacy, presenting this system as a “portrait of naked modernity,” marked by racial capitalism. We conclude that we need to shift from a policy of forma recognition toward a “pedagogy of decolonizing being” that enables us to rebuild subjectivity face to inherited power structures.
Keywords: Recognition, Hegel, Fanon, race, decoloniality, sabotage.
