{"product_id":"against-recognition-9780745629322","title":"Against Recognition","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe struggle for recognition features prominently in the work of various thinkers. Lois McNay argues that the insights of the recognition theorists are undercut by their reliance on an inadequate account of power. By focussing on issues of gender she develops an alternative account of individual agency that connects identity to structure.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eAgainst Recognition\u003c\/i\u003e is an important critique of some of the recognition theorists, and McNay analyses some important blind spots in the recognition literature. It is certainly a recommendable book.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePolitical Studies Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\"Incisive, committed and engaged: this is feminist social theory at it should be practised. McNay?s critique of theories of recognition develops her earlier work on agency and incorporates a powerful and compelling new analysis of the relationship between embodied identity and gender inequalities.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eHenrietta L. Moore, London School of Economics and Political Science\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eAgainst Recognition\u003c\/i\u003e presents a carefully argued critique of recent efforts to represent social and political agency as a struggle for recognition. Though sympathetic to the aims of recognition theorists, McNay finds that their paradigm rests on a reductive conception of power. By way of alternative, she presents a modified version of Pierre Bourdieu's relational phenomenology, whose key concepts of habitus, field, and capital are used to provide a better account of the role that power plays in the complex interplay between agency and social situation.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eAndrew Cutrofello, Loyola University, Chicago\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements. \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Against Recognition.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter One: Recognition and Misrecognition in the Psyche.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Two: The Politics of Recognition.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Three: Narrative and Recognition.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Four: Recognition and Redistribution.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Five: Beyond Recognition: Identity and Agency.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Polity Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51862919545175,"sku":"9780745629322","price":21.53,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780745629322.jpg?v=1759919093","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/against-recognition-9780745629322","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}