Recognition theory and contemporary French moral and political philosophy
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Recognition theory and contemporary French moral and political philosophy

Reopening the dialogue

  1. 264 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Recognition theory and contemporary French moral and political philosophy

Reopening the dialogue

About this book

The revival of recognition theory has brought new energy to critical theory. In general terms, recognition theory aims to critically evaluate social structures against a standard of social freedom identified with norms of interaction which are freely recognised by all parties. Until now, attention has primarily focused on the categories and forms of recognition theory. However, the influence of contemporary French theory upon the development of theories of recognition has not yet received the consideration it merits. This collection outlines the current state of recognition theory, studies the impact of French theory, and uses French thought to identity aspects of the recognitive process which are often overlooked. Exploring French accounts of agonistic identity construction, vulnerability, power, ethical obligation and reflexive theory construction, this book supports the intentions of critical theory with heightened attentiveness to oppression in all of its forms.

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Table of contents

  1. Front matter
  2. Contents
  3. Preface
  4. List of contributors
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. PART I: French contributions to recognition theory
  7. Chapter 1 Deepening critical theory: French contributions to theories of recognition
  8. Chapter 2 The relevance of contemporary French philosophy for a theory of recognition: an interview
  9. PART II: Agonistic identity construction
  10. Chapter 3 Impossible recognition: Lacan, Butler, Žižek
  11. Chapter 4 The politics of suffering and recognition: Foucault contra Honneth
  12. Chapter 5 Sartre and Honneth on conflict and recognition
  13. Chapter 6 Tully, Foucault and agonistic struggles over recognition
  14. PART III: Embodiment and vulnerability
  15. Chapter 7 The theory of social action in Merleau-Ponty and Honneth
  16. Chapter 8 Between gender and subjectivity: Iris Marion Young on the phenomenology of lived experience
  17. PART IV: Systematic oppression and the productivity of power
  18. Chapter 9 Conflicts of recognition and critical sociology
  19. Chapter 10 Systematic misrecognition and the practice of critique: Bourdieu, Boltanski and the role of critical theory
  20. PART V: Justice-to-come: questioning equality and the presumption of finality
  21. Chapter 11 Habermas and Derrida on recognising the other
  22. Chapter 12 Honneth, Lyotard, Levinas
  23. Chapter 13 Justice-to-come in the work of Axel Honneth and Nancy Fraser
  24. References
  25. Index