Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: This paper explores the intersection of class, moral injury, and recognition, examining how the class structure degrades human dignity and autonomy, and proposes paths for social transformation beyond recognition. Class represents a moral injury to the status of being human. Unlike identity-based claims that seek recognition, the condition of class necessitates abolition. The paradox is that even though class can be diagnosed as a form of misrecognition, its rectification cannot be accomplished via recognition. To identify class as a moral injury is to recognise that recognition cannot resolve the misrecognition of class. Undoing the epistemic injustices and misrecognitions of class rather demands the collective work of abolishing class itself.
Author: Jacob Blumenfeld
Institution: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Reduced inequalities
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4413879506