Bound by Recognition

Contents......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 12
INTRODUCTION: The Problem of Recognition......Page 18
CHAPTER ONE: From Recognition to Acknowledgment......Page 26
Sovereignty, Identity, and Action......Page 27
The Nature and Sources of Injustice......Page 34
Recognition and the State......Page 42
The Politics of Acknowledgment......Page 49
Two Uses of “Recognition”......Page 56
Taylor on Agency and Language......Page 60
“Ha! You’re the Bleating One!”......Page 64
Sovereignty through Recognition......Page 70
Recognition as Misrecognition......Page 75
Recognition and Anagnôrisis......Page 79
Sophocles’ Antigone and Aristotle’s Poetics......Page 83
The Pursuit of Recognition in the Antigone......Page 86
“An Imitation Not of Persons but of Action”......Page 91
The Impropriety of Action in the Antigone......Page 97
Anagnôrisis and Acknowledgment......Page 101
Hegel’s Two Voices......Page 107
The Antigone in the Phenomenology......Page 112
The Abdication of Independence......Page 120
Subordination, or the Weight of Contradiction......Page 125
Hegel’s Antifeminism and Polyneices’ Shield......Page 130
Recognition beyond the Phenomenology......Page 135
The Mediating Power of the State?......Page 140
Beyond “On the Jewish Question”......Page 144
“A Way to Strike Them Dead”......Page 148
Hegel, Emancipation, and Sovereignty......Page 155
The Contradictions of Emancipation......Page 160
Recognition’s Double Binds......Page 165
Recognition beyond Monoculturalism......Page 169
Kymlicka and the Right to Culture......Page 173
The Rhetoric of Multiculturalism......Page 178
Negotiating the Slippery Slope......Page 182
The Limits of Multicultural Recognition......Page 188
CONCLUSION: Toward a Politics of Acknowledgment......Page 194
AFTERWORD: A Note on the Cover......Page 207
Notes......Page 212
Works Cited......Page 266
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