Bound by Recognition.
Title:
Bound by Recognition.
Author:
Markell, Patchen.
ISBN:
9781400825875
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (257 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION: The Problem of Recognition -- CHAPTER ONE: From Recognition to Acknowledgment -- Sovereignty, Identity, and Action -- The Nature and Sources of Injustice -- Recognition and the State -- The Politics of Acknowledgment -- CHAPTER TWO: The Distinguishing Mark: Taylor, Herder, and Sovereignty -- Two Uses of "Recognition" -- Taylor on Agency and Language -- "Ha! You're the Bleating One!" -- Sovereignty through Recognition -- Recognition as Misrecognition -- CHAPTER THREE: Tragic Recognition: Action and Identity in Antigone and Aristotle -- Recognition and Anagnôrisis -- Sophocles' Antigone and Aristotle's Poetics -- The Pursuit of Recognition in the Antigone -- "An Imitation Not of Persons but of Action" -- The Impropriety of Action in the Antigone -- Anagnôrisis and Acknowledgment -- CHAPTER FOUR: The Abdication of Independence: On Hegel's Phenomenology -- Hegel's Two Voices -- The Antigone in the Phenomenology -- The Abdication of Independence -- Subordination, or the Weight of Contradiction -- Hegel's Antifeminism and Polyneices' Shield -- Recognition beyond the Phenomenology -- CHAPTER FIVE: Double Binds: Jewish Emancipation and the Sovereign State -- The Mediating Power of the State? -- Beyond "On the Jewish Question" -- "A Way to Strike Them Dead" -- Hegel, Emancipation, and Sovereignty -- The Contradictions of Emancipation -- Recognition's Double Binds -- CHAPTER SIX: The Slippery Slope: Multiculturalism as a Politics of Recognition -- Recognition beyond Monoculturalism -- Kymlicka and the Right to Culture -- The Rhetoric of Multiculturalism -- Negotiating the Slippery Slope -- The Limits of Multicultural Recognition -- CONCLUSION: Toward a Politics of Acknowledgment -- AFTERWORD: A Note on the Cover -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M.
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Abstract:
In an era of heightened concern about injustice in relations of identity and difference, political theorists often prescribe equal recognition as a remedy for the ills of subordination. Drawing on the philosophy of Hegel, they envision a system of reciprocal knowledge and esteem, in which the affirming glance of others lets everyone be who they really are. This book challenges the equation of recognition with justice. Patchen Markell mines neglected strands of the concept's genealogy and reconstructs an unorthodox interpretation of Hegel, who, in the unexpected company of Sophocles, Aristotle, Arendt, and others, reveals why recognition's promised satisfactions are bound to disappoint, and even to stifle. Written with exceptional clarity, the book develops an alternative account of the nature and sources of identity-based injustice in which the pursuit of recognition is part of the problem rather than the solution. And it articulates an alternative conception of justice rooted not in the recognition of identity of the other but in the acknowledgment of our own finitude in the face of a future thick with surprise. Moving deftly among contemporary political philosophers (including Taylor and Kymlicka), the close interpretation of ancient and modern texts (Hegel's Phenomenology, Aristotle's Poetics, and more), and the exploration of rich case studies drawn from literature (Antigone), history (Jewish emancipation in nineteenth-century Prussia), and modern politics (official multiculturalism), Bound by Recognition is at once a sustained treatment of the problem of recognition and a sequence of virtuoso studies.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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