The Ethical Turn and the Problem of the Good Life in the Last Generation of Critical Theory

This article aims to examine the three critical theories which are part of the so-called ethical turn initiated by Axel Honneth with his theory of recognition and continued by Hartmut Rosa and Rahel Jaeggi with their respective conceptions of a sociology of the good life in the form of resonance and a dialectical-pragmatic conception of the processes of emancipation of forms of life. The main purpose is to distinguish the place they give to the ethico-affective dimension of the good life, with respect to the ethical-abstinent normative traditions, oriented rather by a concept of justice.