DIREITOS HUMANOS, IDENTIDADE E A POLÍTICA DE RECONHECIMENTO DE CHARLES TAYLOR

The present text intends to submit Taylor's communitarian proposal and the way the author understands the complex and not always friendly relation between human rights and multiculturalism. It approaches in a general way the different positions that liberals and communitarians assume on facing equality and difference problems that feature the identity and cultural belonging demands, and then center the analysis on Taylor's ideas. On the final considerations, Taylor's communitarianist exaggerations are criticized and a intercultural view on human rights is supported, which is capable of denouncing the fragilities of the abstract conception of the liberalism's man and the cultural relativism that justifies different kinds of domination and exclusion. Key-words: Human rights; liberalism; communitarianism; interculturalism; Charles Taylor; multiculturalism; recognition. CONSIDERAÇÕES INICIAIS Apesar de nunca ter saído de cena, o problema teórico e prático dos direitos humanos adquire uma peculiar importância no contexto da sociedade global. Novas formas de produção da sociabilidade dão visibilidade a problemas que estavam encobertos ou