Recognition, identity and subjectivity
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https://doi.org/10.69967/07194773.v1i18.394Keywords:
critical theory, recognition, identity, subjetctivity, AnerkennungAbstract
[Translator’s Note: The concept of “recognition” is widely used in contemporary debates, but sometimes it
refers to phenomena of a different nature or presents nuances that are unnoticed at first glance. Fortunately,
the main task of Prof. Heikki Ikaheimo’s article is to clarify the concept of recognition for critical theory, so ¨
that an analytical map is drawn in order to review the recognition concept manifestation in selected authors.
The first section reviews the different meanings of recognition term and draws an analytical map that shows
the observable relationships of recognition among persons. The second section explores the importance of
recognition concept in the political and social philosophy of Charles Taylor and Axel Honneth, reviewing
the debate of the latter with Nancy Fraser. The third section reviews the manifestations of the concept of
recognition in the works of Judith Butler and Louis Althusser. The fourth section explores the concept of
recognition in the analytical social ontology of John Searle and American neo-Hegelian authors.]
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and power: Axel Honneth and the tradition of critical theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press.
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Press.
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224–247.
• Ikaheimo, H. (2014). Hegel’s concept of recognition—What is it? En Ch. Krijnen (Ed.), ¨
Recognition—German idealism as an ongoing challenge (pp. 11–38). Leiden: Brill.
• Ikaheimo, H. Laitinen, A. (2011). ¨ Recognition and social ontology. Leiden: Brill.
• McNay, L. (2008). Against recognition. Cambridge: Polity Press.
• Olson, K. (Ed.). (2008). Adding insult to injury. London: Verso.
• Pinkard, T. (1994). Hegel’s phenomenology—The sociality of reason. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
• Ricoeur, P. (2005). The course of recognition. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
• Schmidt am Busch, H-Ch. (2011). Anerkennung als Prinzip der kritischen Theorie. Berlin:
Walter de Gruyter.
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University Press.
• Siep, L. [2014 (1979)]. Anerkennung als Prinzip der praktischen Philosophie. Hamburg: Felix
Meiner.
• Taylor, Ch. (1989). The sources of the self—The making of the modern identity. Cambridge:
Harvard University Press.
• Taylor, Ch. (1995). The politics of recognition. En A. Guttman (Ed.), Multiculturalism—Examining
the politics of recognition. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
• Thompson, S. (2006). The political theory of recognition—A critical introduction. Cambridge:
Polity.
• Williams, R. (1992). Recognition: Fichte and Hegel on the other. New York: Suny Press.
• Williams, R. (1997). Hegel’s ethics of recognition. Berkeley: University of California Press.
• Zurn, Ch. (2000). Anthropology and normativity: A critique of Axel Honneth’s ‘formal
conception of ethical life’. Philosophy and Social Criticism, 26(1), 115–124.
• Zurn, Ch. (2015). Axel Honneth—A critical theory of the social. Cambridge: Polity.
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Saldías Robles, C. (2022). Recognition, identity and subjectivity. Mutatis Mutandis: Revista Internacional De Filosofía, 1(18), 155–169. https://doi.org/10.69967/07194773.v1i18.394
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