The emancipatory character of Axel Honneth’s Theory of Recognition points to a materialization, generalization or individualization of intersubjective recognition. However, by basing his analysis on the already institutionalized order of recognition, it is difficult to imagine alternative orders of recognition within this approach. The aim of this article is to present the potential of the others -of different, traditionally marginalized groups- as bearers of diverse implicit proposals of forms of recognition. To this end, in a first step, the anchoring of the Theory of Recognition and its methodological argumentation in the terrain of a particular reading of Western societies will be criticized. In a second step, as an example and with reference to the practices of the gypsy population and theories on antisemitism, the deficient institutionalization of recognition in the sphere of labour relations will be shown.