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- ISBN 9780791408582
- Weight: 490g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 23 Mar 1992
- Publisher: State University of New York Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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What does it mean to encounter another self, and to be recognized in return?
Robert R. Williams offers a powerful and deeply researched exploration of recognition (Anerkennung) as the hidden core of German Idealism. Moving beyond familiar readings, Williams uncovers how Fichte and Hegel develop a rich, intersubjective account of freedom, selfhood, and social life, one that challenges longstanding assumptions about post-Kantian philosophy.
Bringing clarity to notoriously difficult texts, Williams reconstructs the emergence of recognition as a dynamic, relational process: from Fichte's notion of the Other as a "summons" to freedom, to Hegel's vision of spirit as a fundamentally social and triadic structure. Along the way, he bridges German Idealism with phenomenology and contemporary debates on the problem of the Other, engaging figures such as Husserl, Sartre, and Levinas.
Recognition not only reinterprets Fichte and Hegel, it reshapes how we understand the very foundations of subjectivity, community, and human freedom.
Robert R. Williams is Professor of German, Religious Studies, and Philosophy at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
