The essay has as context the discussion between egalitarian politics, politics of difference, multiculturalism and recognition. Ralws’s liberal politics has one of its sources in the Kantian formalism from which the principles of autonomy, dignity and universality are understood. J. Rawls’s proposal is subject to this formalism insofar as he has difficulties in assuming identity as part of dignity. This essay aims to critically approach these prepolitical foundations of liberal politics from the category of identity.