Recognition and the Human Life-Form

Beyond Identity and Difference
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-032-13999-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 262 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 564 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

What is recognition and why is it so important? This book develops a synoptic conception of the significance of recognition in its many forms for human persons by means of a rational reconstruction and internal critique of classical and contemporary accounts.

The book begins with a clarification of several fundamental questions concerning recognition. It then reconstructs the core ideas of Fichte, Hegel, Taylor, Fraser, and Honneth and utilizes the insights and conceptual tools developed across these chapters for developing a case for the universal importance of recognition for humans. It argues in favour of a universalist anthropological position, unusual in the literature on recognition, that aims to construe a philosophically sound basis for a discourse of common humanity, or of a shared human life-form for which moral relations of recognition are essential. This synthetic conception of the importance of recognition provides tools for articulating deep intuitions shared across cultures about what makes human life and forms of human co-existence better or worse, and thus tools for mutual understanding about the deepest shared concerns of humanity, or of what makes us all human persons despite our differences.

Recognition and the Human Life-Form will appeal to readers interested in philosophical anthropology, social and political philosophy, critical theory, and the history of philosophy. It also provides ideas and conceptual tools for fields such as anthropology, education, disability studies, international relations, law, politics, religious studies, sociology, and social research.

Chapter 5 of this book is available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www.routledge.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ikäheimo, Heikki

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Transzendentalphilosophie, Kritizismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword

1. Preliminary Questions

2. Fichte: Recognition and Personhood

3. Hegel: Recognition and ‘Spirit’ or the Human Life-Form

4. Charles Taylor and Nancy Fraser: Recognition, Identity, and Inclusion

5. Axel Honneth: The Recognition Paradigm Between Universalism and Historicism

6. Recognition, the Human Life-Form, and Full-Fledged Personhood

Über Autor(innen)

Heikki Ikäheimo is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at UNSW Sydney, Australia. He is specialized in Hegel, recognition, personhood, social ontology, and critical social philosophy. His previous publications include the monographs Anerkennung (2014) and Self-Consciousness and Intersubjectivity (2000), the co-edited volumes Handbuch Anerkennung (2021), Recognition and Ambivalence (2021), Recognition and Social Ontology (2011), and Dimensions of Personhood (2007), as well as numerous articles and book-chapters.