Recognition and Power: Axel Honneth and the Tradition of Critical Social Theory

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Dedication......Page 4
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
List of Figures and Tables......Page 9
Contributors......Page 11
Acknowledgments......Page 15
1 Introduction......Page 17
a. The Moral Grammar of Social Conflicts......Page 18
b. Honneth’s Project in Context......Page 22
c. Recognition and Practical Relations-to-Self......Page 25
d. Moral Progress and a Conception of the Good......Page 31
2. Recognition and power......Page 36
a. Philosophical Approaches to Recognition......Page 39
b. Recognition and Power in Social Theory......Page 41
c. Recognition and Power in Political Theory......Page 43
d. Axel Honneth on Recognition and Power......Page 45
Part I PHILOSOPHICAL APPROACHES TO RECOGNITION......Page 47
2 Analyzing Recognition......Page 49
1. Identification, acknowledgement, and recognition......Page 50
Acknowledgement of ‘Normative Entities’......Page 51
Recognition of Persons......Page 52
2.1. Recognitive Attitudes and Attitude-Complexes......Page 53
2.2. One-Dimensional versus Multi-dimensional Conceptions of Recognition......Page 55
2.3. Recognitive Attitudes versus Social and Institutional Spheres......Page 58
2.4. Recognitive Attitudes, Action, and Understanding......Page 59
2.5. Acceptance, Internalization, and Autonomy......Page 63
2.6. Statuses and Attitudes......Page 65
3. Analyzing misrecognition......Page 67
I. Liberal politics and the politics of recognition......Page 73
II. The liberal rejoinder and the core issue......Page 78
III. The hegelian position......Page 81
IV. Hegel’s narrative......Page 84
V. Forgiveness?......Page 90
4 Damaged Life......Page 95
False life......Page 99
Does adorno have an ethics at all?......Page 103
Adorno’s ethics of resistance......Page 105
Lessons for axel honneth’s theory of recognition......Page 114
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2......Page 118
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6......Page 144
Part II RECOGNITION AND POWER IN SOCIAL THEORY......Page 149
6 Work, Recognition, Emancipation......Page 151
1. Work, gainful employment, and family work......Page 153
2. The different rationalities of family work and paid work......Page 157
3. The argument from overcoming the gender-specific division of labour......Page 160
4. The argument from recognition......Page 165
5. Labour, justice, emancipation......Page 172
7 “…That All Members Should be Loved in the Same Way…"......Page 180
I. Law and separation......Page 182
II. The tripolar structure of love......Page 187
III. The original object as a corporate body......Page 190
IV. Private and public recognition......Page 196
V. Political love......Page 200
8 Recognition of Love’s Labor......Page 205
Introduction......Page 208
On recognition......Page 209
Honneth’s feminism......Page 215
Recognition of love’s labor......Page 218
(1) Conjugal Love as Ideology......Page 220
(2) Care Work......Page 222
Part III RECOGNITION AND POWER IN POLITICAL THEORY......Page 229
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2......Page 232
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12......Page 250
10 Misrecognition, Power, and Democracy......Page 254
I Inequalities and (mis)recognition: pluralist or monist frames......Page 256
I.1. A Pluralist Frame......Page 257
I.2. A Monist Frame......Page 264
II Misrecognition, power, and incapacitation......Page 274
III Democracy and incapacitation......Page 281
11 Reasonable Deliberation, Constructive Power, and the Struggle for Recognition......Page 286
Recognition and power: a theory and a problem......Page 288
Reasonable deliberation: a model of recognition......Page 295
Reasonable struggles amid institutions of recognition......Page 299
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II......Page 312
III......Page 317
IV......Page 322
V......Page 331
conclusion......Page 335
Part IV AXEL HONNETH ON RECOGNITION AND POWER......Page 337
13 Recognition as Ideology......Page 339
I......Page 344
II......Page 352
III......Page 357
14 Rejoinder......Page 364
I......Page 366
II......Page 372
III......Page 379
Bibliography......Page 387
Index......Page 407