The Philosophy Of Recognition: Historical And Contemporary Perspectives

The Philosophy of Recognition The Philosophy of Recognition Historical and Contemporary Perspectives Edited by Hans-Christoph Schmidt am Busch and Christopher F. Zurn L EXINGTON B OOKS A division of ROW M A N & L I T T L E F I E L D P U B L I S H E R S , I N C . Lanham • Boulder • New York • Toronto • Plymouth, UK Published with generous support from the Hans-Böckler Foundation. Published by Lexington Books A division of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. A wholly owned subsidiary of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. 4501 Forbes Boulevard, Suite 200, Lanham, Maryland 20706 http://www.lexingtonbooks.com Estover Road, Plymouth PL6 7PY, United Kingdom Copyright © 2010 by Lexington Books All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote passages in a review. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Information Available Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The philosophy of recognition : historical and contemporary perspectives / [edited by] Hans-Christoph Schmidt am Busch and Christopher F. Zurn. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-7391-4425-1 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-7391-4427-5 (electronic) 1. Recognition (Philosophy) I. Schmidt am Busch, Hans-Christoph. II. Zurn, Christopher F., 1966– B105.R23.P55 2010 128—dc22 2009038852 ⬁ ™ The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992. Printed in the United States of America Contents 1 Introduction Christopher F. Zurn 1 2 Rousseau and the Human Drive for Recognition (Amour Propre) Frederick Neuhouser 3 Recognition and Embodiment: Fichte’s Materialism J. M. Bernstein 4 “The Pure Notion of Recognition”: Reflections on the Grammar of the Relation of Recognition in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit Michael Quante 5 Recognition in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit and Contemporary Practical Philosophy Ludwig Siep 21 47 89 107 6 Recognition, the Right, and the Good Terry Pinkard 129 7 Producing for Others Daniel Brudney 151 8 “Recognition” in Psychoanalysis Andreas Wildt 189 9 Rethinking Recognition Nancy Fraser 211 v vi Contents 10 Work and Recognition: A Redefinition Axel Honneth 11 Taking on the Inheritance of Critical Theory: Saving Marx by Recognition? Emmanuel Renault 223 241 12 Can the Goals of the Frankfurt School be Achieved by a Theory of Recognition? Hans-Christoph Schmidt am Busch 257 13 Critique of Political Economy and Contemporary Critical Theory: A Defense of Honneth’s Theory of Recognition Jean-Philippe Deranty 285 14 On the Scope of “Recognition”: The Role of Adequate Regard and Mutuality Arto Laitinen 319 15 Making the Best of What We Are: Recognition as an Ontological and Ethical Concept Heikki Ikäheimo 343 Ind