RECONNAISSANCE ET LIBERTÉ. APPROCHE EXISTENTIALISTE
RECOGNITION AND FREEDOM. AN EXISTENTIALIST APPROACH

Summary/Abstract: In different previous works, we gave some caracteristics of the concept of recognition, in the specific context of the genocide, and particularly, the genocide which occured in Rwanda in 1994. The concept of recognition is firstly studied on a social point of view, for example with Axel Honneth theory, based on Hegelian theory. But, in the specific case of the recognition of genocide, these theories were not sufficient to understand a possible recognition. In this article, we want to go further in the approach of the recognition of the genocide. With the definition and the caracteristics we gave about recognition of the genocide: perpetual process of the interpretation of facts, we will firstly ask if recognition is an action or not. Then, we will precede to an analysis of the link between recognition a freedom. Is freedom necessary to the recognition of the genocide? Does recognition mean freedom?

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