Recognition and Power

This 2007 volume offers a critical evaluation of the research program for Critical Theory developed by Honneth in his book The Struggle for Recognition.

1. Introduction Bert van den Brink and David Owen; Part I. Philosophical Approaches to Recognition: 2. Analyzing recognition: identification, acknowledgment and recognitive attitudes towards persons Heikki Ikaheimo and Arto Laitinen; 3. Recognition and reconciliation: actualized agency in Hegel's jena phenomenology Robert Pippin; 4. Damaged life: power and recognition in Adorno's ethics Bert van den Brink; 5. The potential and the actual: Mead, Honneth, and the 'I' Patchen Markell; Part II. Recognition and Power in Social Theory: 6. Work, recognition, emancipation Beate Roessler; 7. '... that all members should be loved in the same way...' Lior Barshack; 8. Recognition of love's labor: considering Axel Honneth's feminism Iris Marion Young; Part III. Recognition and Power in Political Theory: 9. 'To tolerate means to insult': toleration, recognition, and emancipation; 10. Misrecognition, power, and democracy Veit Bader; 11. Reasonable deliberation, constructive power, and the struggle for recognition Anthony Simon Laden; 12. Self-government and 'democracy as reflexive co-operation': reflection on Honneth's social and political ideal David Owen; Part IV. Axel Honneth on Recognition and Power: 13. Recognition as ideology Axel Honneth; 14. Rejoinder Axel Honneth.