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Both pedagogical and critical, this collection outlines the current state of recognition theory, studies the influence of French theory upon its evolution, and uses French thought to identity aspects of the recognitive process which are often overlooked.

Trade Review

This volume may help to answer a charge, frequently levelled against the theory of recognition, namely that it is nothing more than a theory of minority rights or differentiated citizenship dressed up in fancy Hegelian costume.

"This collection will interest anyone involved in ongoing debates about the development of theories of recognition. Each chapter is of exemplary theoretical and rhetorical quality; collectively they constitute a valuable intervention across those areas of moral and political philosophy, social theory and anthropology that converge under this interdisciplinary banner."
(Jared Holley, Political Studies Review Volume 12, Issue 3, September 2014)

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Table of Contents

Part I: French contributions to recognition theory
1. Deepening critical theory: French contributions to theories of recognition
Miriam Bankovsky and Alice Le Goff
2. The relevance of contemporary French philosophy for a theory of recognition: An interview
Axel Honneth, interviewed by Miriam Bankovsky
Part II: Agonistic identity construction
3. Impossible recognition: Lacan, Butler, Zizek
Catherine Malabou
4. The politics of suffering and recognition: Foucault contra Honneth
Lois McNay
5. Sartre and Honneth on conflict and recognition
Alice Le Goff
6. Tully, Foucault and agonistic struggles over recogniton
David Owen
Part III: Embodiment and vulnerability
7. The theory of social action in Merleau-Ponty and Honneth
Jean-Philippe Deranty
8. Between gender and subjectivity: Iris Marion Young on the phenomenology of lived experience
Marie Garrau
Part IV: Systematic oppression and the productivity of power
9. Conflicts of recognition and critical sociology
Christian Lazzeri
10. Systematic misrecognition and the practice of critique: Bourdieu, Boltanski and the role of critical theory
Robin Celikates
Part V: Justice-to-come: questioning equality and the presumption of finality
11. Habermas and Derrida on recognising the other
Isabelle Aubert
12. Honneth, Lyotard, Levinas
Jean-Michel Salanskis
13. Justice-to-come in the work of Axel Honneth and Nancy Fraser
Miriam Bankovsky
References

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/01/2012
      ISBN13: 9780719083563, 978-0719083563
      ISBN10: 719083567

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Both pedagogical and critical, this collection outlines the current state of recognition theory, studies the influence of French theory upon its evolution, and uses French thought to identity aspects of the recognitive process which are often overlooked.

      Trade Review

      This volume may help to answer a charge, frequently levelled against the theory of recognition, namely that it is nothing more than a theory of minority rights or differentiated citizenship dressed up in fancy Hegelian costume.

      "This collection will interest anyone involved in ongoing debates about the development of theories of recognition. Each chapter is of exemplary theoretical and rhetorical quality; collectively they constitute a valuable intervention across those areas of moral and political philosophy, social theory and anthropology that converge under this interdisciplinary banner."
      (Jared Holley, Political Studies Review Volume 12, Issue 3, September 2014)

      -- .

      Table of Contents

      Part I: French contributions to recognition theory
      1. Deepening critical theory: French contributions to theories of recognition
      Miriam Bankovsky and Alice Le Goff
      2. The relevance of contemporary French philosophy for a theory of recognition: An interview
      Axel Honneth, interviewed by Miriam Bankovsky
      Part II: Agonistic identity construction
      3. Impossible recognition: Lacan, Butler, Zizek
      Catherine Malabou
      4. The politics of suffering and recognition: Foucault contra Honneth
      Lois McNay
      5. Sartre and Honneth on conflict and recognition
      Alice Le Goff
      6. Tully, Foucault and agonistic struggles over recogniton
      David Owen
      Part III: Embodiment and vulnerability
      7. The theory of social action in Merleau-Ponty and Honneth
      Jean-Philippe Deranty
      8. Between gender and subjectivity: Iris Marion Young on the phenomenology of lived experience
      Marie Garrau
      Part IV: Systematic oppression and the productivity of power
      9. Conflicts of recognition and critical sociology
      Christian Lazzeri
      10. Systematic misrecognition and the practice of critique: Bourdieu, Boltanski and the role of critical theory
      Robin Celikates
      Part V: Justice-to-come: questioning equality and the presumption of finality
      11. Habermas and Derrida on recognising the other
      Isabelle Aubert
      12. Honneth, Lyotard, Levinas
      Jean-Michel Salanskis
      13. Justice-to-come in the work of Axel Honneth and Nancy Fraser
      Miriam Bankovsky
      References

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