The Theory and Practice of Recognition

Cover
Endorsement Page
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
The Theory and Practice of Recognition: An Introduction
Theories of Recognition
Practices of Recognition
In This Volume
Notes
References
Part I: Recognition, Personal Life, and Constitution of the Self
Chapter 1: Authenticity and the Problem of Social Recognition
1.1 Authenticity: Individuality and Immersion
1.2 Being Oneself: Making or Finding?
1.3 Recognition and Authenticity
1.4 Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Notes
References
Chapter 2: Recognition and the Human Life-Form: Towards an Anthropological Turn in Critical Theory
2.1 The Variability or Invariability of Recognition and Its Importance
2.2 The Constitution of the Human Life-Form and the Role of Intersubjective Recognition in It
2.3 The Mode of Recognition and the Goodness of Life with the Human Form
2.4 Full-Fledged Personhood and Recognition
2.5 Personifying Recognition and the Personhood of the Recognizer
2.6 Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 3: Mutual Recognition and Well-Being: What Is It for Relational Selves to Thrive?
3.1 The Thesis: Relations of Mutual Recognition Constitute the Thriving of Relational Selves
3.2 Theories of Good Life
3.2.1 Hedonism and the Experiential Quality of Life
3.2.2 Desire-Satisfaction Theories and Valuing
3.2.3 Objective List Theories
3.2.4 Hybrid Theories of Good Life
3.3 The Importance of Relationships
3.3.1 Do Relationships Reduce to Activities?
3.3.2 The Highest Good as Relational Selves: Relationships
3.3.3 Does This Generalize from Love to Esteem, Respect, and Trust?
3.3.4 What about Vertical Relationships?
3.3.5 Summing Up
3.4 Prudential Goodness
3.4.1 Prudentially Good Lives versus Good Lives in Other Ways
3.4.2 Recognitional Goods
3.4.3 How Does the Proposed View Fare as a Theory of Well-Being?
3.5 Are We Essentially Relational Selves?
3.6 Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 4: Recognition: Intersubjectivity and Self-Respect
4.1 Recognition: Anthropological and Normative Perspectives
4.2 Intersubjectivity and Self-respect
4.3 A Life of Disrespect: The Novel Anton Reiser by Karl P. Moritz
4.4 Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 5: Varieties of Social Invisibilization and Non-person Treatment
5.1 Goffman on Non-Person Treatment
5.2 Social Invisibility: The Most Horrible Situation or an Opportunity?
5.3 Social Invisibilization and Overt Disrespect
5.4 The Distorted and the Prejudiced Look
5.5 Social Invisibilization as a Form of Bullying
5.6 Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 6: The Gift Model of Recognition
6.1 ‘Gift’: A Brief Look at Some Key Developments and Questions
6.1.1 The Legacy of Marcel Mauss
6.1.2 Philosophy of the (Pure) Gift: Derrida and Marion
6.1.3 Plurality and Diversity of the Current Research on the Gift
6.1.4 Key Questions
6.2 The Gift of Recognition: Marcel Hénaff and Paul Ricœur
6.2.1 Marcel Hénaff's Gift: Neither Economic Nor Altruistic
6.2.2 Two Problems
6.2.3 Paul Ricœur’s Gift: Mutuality and “Agape”
6.2.4 Hénaff, Ricœur, and the Gift in Modern Times
6.2.5 Gift-Giving and Recognition: A Preliminary Summary
6.3 Recognition as Gift: Three Perspectives
6.3.1 Theology of the Gift: God’s Primordial Gift of Recognition
6.3.2 Gifts and Rights
6.3.3 Gifts, Recognition, and Otherness
Notes
References
Part II: Political Practice and the Theory of Recognition
Chapter 7: Populism, Polarization, and Misrecognition
7.1 Resurgent Populism
7.1.1 Documenting Populism
7.1.2 Defining Contemporary Populism
7.2 Rising Partisan Polarization
7.3 Moral Psychology and Social Dynamics
7.3.1 Evaluative Emotions and Social Identity
7.3.2 Universal Political Psychology
7.3.3 Social Changes in the Recognition Order
7.4 Substantive Claims for Recognition
7.4.1 Psychological Dopes or Agents of Evaluation?
7.4.2 Populism’s Manifest Content
7.4.3 Misrecognition and Populism
7.5 Conclusions
Notes
References
Chapter 8: The Environment of Recognition
8.1 The Theory of Recognition
8.2 Urban Environments
8.3 Assurance and Humiliation
8.4 The Colston Hall
8.5 What Is to Be Done?
8.6 Concluding Remarks
Notes
References
Chapter 9: Creating Irrelations: The #MeToo Phenomenon in the Light of Recognition Theory
9.1 #MeToo – Exposing the Casting Couch
9.2 It Ain’t Necessarily So
9.3 Conceptual Prerequisites
9.4 Central Features of Recognition Theory
9.5 The Mutually Agreeable Romantic Relationship
9.6 The Illicit Sexual Relationship
9.7 The Grey Zone
9.8 Gendered Systems of Power, Opportunity, and Responsibility
9.9 A Gendered System of Acknowledgement
9.10 #MeToo and Recognition Theory
Notes
References
Chapter 10: How to Criticize?: On Honneth’s Method
10.1 Normative Reconstruction in Contrast to Construction and Genealogy
10.2 Construction
10.3 Reconstruction
10.4 Genealogy
10.5 Discussion
10.6 Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Notes
References
Chapter 11: Emancipation and Interpretation of Norms in Contemporary Recognition Theory
11.1 Autonomy and Heteronomy: A Tension in the Foundations?
11.2 The Potential Reach of an Immanent Argumentation Strategy?
11.3 Normative Criteria and Recognitional Goals?
11.4 A Supposed Contrast with Ideal Political Philosophies?
11.5 Conclusions: Pragmatism, Naturalism, and Critical Theory?
Notes
References
Chapter 12: Institutionally Mediated Recognition: A Vicious Circle?
12.1 Institutions and Recognition – Outlining the Problem
12.2 Recognizable Institutions
12.3 Recognitive Attitudes towards Institutions
12.4 Challenging Vertical Recognition
12.5 In Conclusion: How Vicious Is the Circle?
Notes
References
Part III: Historical and Religious Practices of Recognition
Chapter 13: Recognition and Fides : Old and New Paths of Conceptual History
13.1 The Long History of Performative Recognition
13.2 Externalist and Internalist Faith Communities
13.3 Premodern Religious Recognition
13.4 Modern Religious Recognition
13.5 Concluding Remarks
References
Chapter 14: “I Am Not Like Other People!” Desire for Esteem within the Community of Equals
14.1 Bernard of Clairvaux: At the Crossroads between Pride and Humility
14.2 John of la Rochelle: The Arduous Social Emotions
14.3 Thomas Aquinas: Pride and Glory
14.4 Natural Hope and Future Orientation
14.5 Conclusions
Notes
References
Chapter 15: Citizens and the Criteria for Recognition in the Roman Empire
15.1 Romulus and the Ethos of Asylum
15.2 Roman Citizenship and the Criteria for Recognition
15.2.1 The Strong Conception of Citizenship: Cultural Criteria
15.2.2 The Less Strong Conception of Citizenship: Expressions of Loyalty as Criteria
15.3 The Criteria for Recognition in Late Roman Society (200–400)
15.4 The Criteria in the Christian Empire: Correct Religion
15.5 The Impact of Immigration in Late Antiquity
15.6 Citizen Stilicho
15.7 Concluding Remarks
Notes
References
Ancient sources
Modern sources
Chapter 16: Beyond the Theory-Practice Dichotomy: Pragmatism, Antitheodicy, and the Recognition of Suffering
16.1 The Availability of Antitheodicy
16.2 Theory and Practice
16.3 Moral Criticism
16.4 Recognition and Toleration
16.5 Primo Levi’s Antitheodicism: A Case Study on Moral Recognition
16.6 Concluding Reflections
Acknowledgements
Notes
References
Index