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Aeschylus
Agency (philosophy)
Anagnorisis
Aristotle
Atomism
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Citizenship
Civil society
Clytemnestra
Consciousness
Consummation
Contingency (philosophy)
Contradiction
Criticism
Critique
Deliberation
Emancipation
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Ethos
Exclusion
Explanation
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Hannah Arendt
Herder
Identity (social science)
Identity politics
Ideology
Institution
Irony
Jacques Derrida
Jewish emancipation
Liberalism
Modernity
Mourning
Multiculturalism
Narrative
Nation state
On the Jewish Question
Oppression
Philosophy
Philosophy of language
Political philosophy
Politics
Prejudice
Primordialism
Principle
Prussia
Rhetoric
Seyla Benhabib
Sittlichkeit
Skepticism
Slavery
Social death
Social relation
Sophocles
Sovereign state
Sovereignty
Subjectivity
Suggestion
Symptom
The Other Hand
Theory
Thought
Tragedy
Uncertainty
Understanding
Vulnerability
Westphalian sovereignty
Writing
Product details
- ISBN 9780691113821
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 31 Aug 2003
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Patchen Markell is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago.
