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This article engages a critical dialogue with the interpretations of neoliberalism as a general view on the world and a construction of individual psychology. It aims at showing that the economic importance of neoliberalism is primordial. Underestimating the economical dimension in neoliberal governmental practices leads to the temptation of a functionalist psychologism it prevents from understanding the complex and bidirectional relations between capitalist economy and the subjects living in it (their desires, their beliefs, their interests). There is no contradiction between neoliberalism as a form of society and neoliberalism as an economic rationality. Therefore, neoliberalism can be understood as an essential (even if mobile and plural) moment of contemporary capitalism. Adapted from the source document.

The paper discusses Axel Honneth's recent book on Reification & its relation to Honneth's theory of recognition. It critically examines Honneth's hypothesis concerning the existential roots of recognition, & compares two classical concepts of social critique, Reification & alienation, in order to argue for the superiority of the latter over the former. References. Adapted from the source document.