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affirmative mutual recognition
anerkennung
aristotle
Author_Robert R. Williams
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civil society
community
concept of right
contemporary philosophy
crime
deleauze
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ethics
geist
hegel
international relations
jena manuscripts
kant
kantian ethics
levinas
morality
nonfiction
phenomenology of spirit
philosophy
philosophy of right
political community
political philosophy
punishment
recognition
rights
rousseau
social community
social contract
social theory
sovereignty
spirit
state power
state violence
virtues
war
Product details
- ISBN 9780520224926
- Weight: 680g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 02 Oct 2000
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In this significant contribution to Hegel scholarship, Robert Williams develops the most comprehensive account to date of Hegel's concept of recognition (Anerkennung). Fichte introduced the concept of recognition as a presupposition of both Rousseau's social contract and Kant's ethics. Williams shows that Hegel appropriated the concept of recognition as the general pattern of his concept of ethical life, breaking with natural law theory yet incorporating the Aristotelian view that rights and virtues are possible only within a certain kind of community. He explores Hegel's intersubjective concept of spirit (Geist) as the product of affirmative mutual recognition and his conception of recognition as the right to have rights. Examining Hegel's Jena manuscripts, his Philosophy of Right, the Phenomenology of Spirit, and other works, Williams shows how the concept of recognition shapes and illumines Hegel's understandings of crime and punishment, morality, the family, the state, sovereignty, international relations, and war.
A concluding chapter on the reception and reworking of the concept of recognition by contemporary thinkers including Derrida, Levinas, and Deleuze demonstrates Hegel's continuing centrality to the philosophical concerns of our age.
Robert R. Williams, Professor of Philosophy at Hiram College and Vice-President of the Hegel Society of America, is author of Recognition: Hegel and Fichte on the Other (1992).
