Recognition policy of difference, in the face of demanads from the contemporany multicultural society

Abstract

Multicultural demands are presented as an emergent in current contemporary societies, various literatures analyze this phenomenon and maintain different positions in this regard. For the purposes of this article, three perspectives will be analyzed in this debate, represented by Nancy Fraser, Axel Honneth, and Charles Taylor. Each of them places the focus of their attention on the need to establish what “real” demands must be recognized, to develop a policy based on the recognition of differences, with the aim of achieving a society open to the encounter with and capable of claiming, through recognition, those groups or identities, that were marginalized through cultures or political models that became hegemonic in historical processes. In order to critically analyze these literatures, it will be tried to elucidate which of them makes it possible, in its assumptions, to construct a policy of recognition with greater openness to receive the multicultural demands.