Recognition and Social Ontology -- Copyright -- Contents -- Volume Foreword -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- 1. Recognition and Social Ontology: An Introduction -- RECOGNITION AND THE SOCIAL ONTOLOGY OF PERSONHOOD -- 2. The Structure of Desire and Recognition: Self-Consciousness and Self-Constitution -- 3. On Hegel's Claim that Self-Consciousnessis "Desire Itself" ("Begierde überhaupt") -- 4. Intuition, Understanding, and the Human Form of Life -- HEGEL, MARX, AND BEYOND: RECOGNITION, SPIRIT, AND SPECIES BEING -- 5. Mutual Recognition: Hegel and Beyond -- 6. Holism and Normative Essentialism in Hegel's Social Ontology -- 7. The Relevance of Hegel's "Absolute Spirit" to Social Normativity -- 8. Recognition as the Social Grammar of Species Being in Marx -- GROUPS, INSTITUTIONS, AND RECOGNITION -- 9. Mutual Recognition and Some Related Phenomena -- 10. Social Space and the Ontology of Recognition -- 11. Recognition, Acknowledgement, and Acceptance -- 12. Institutional Power, Collective Acceptance, and Recognition -- 13. The Problem of Collective Identity:The Instituting We and the Instituted We -- Index.