Hegel's Ethics of RecognitionIn 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. |
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Contents
Recognition and Ethics | 1 |
Recognition in Fichte and Schelling | 31 |
Part | 46 |
The Double Significations in the Concept of Recognition | 52 |
Mastery and Slavery as a Determinate Shape | 59 |
Recognition in the Encyclopedia Philosophy | 69 |
Crossing the Threshold of Ethical Life | 77 |
Universal SelfConsciousness as Affirmative SelfRecognition | 88 |
Wrong Semblance and the Logic of Essence | 156 |
Banquos Ghost | 162 |
of the State | 262 |
Sovereignty international Relations and War | 334 |
War | 342 |
issues of Recognition in International Relations | 348 |
The Deficiency of the International We | 357 |
Recent Views of Recognition and the Question | 364 |
Recognition in the 1805 Jena Philosophy of Spirit | 96 |
BeingRecognized Right and Wrong | 103 |
Systematic issues in the Philosophy of Right if | 111 |
Hegels Method of Abstraction | 119 |
From InItself to ForItself The Development | 130 |
The Intersubjectivity of Ownership | 140 |
The Intersubjectivity of Contract | 148 |
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abstract right actual affirmative analysis Anerkanntsein autonomy becomes civil society coercion concept of recognition concept of right condition consciousness constitutes contingent critical critique Dasein determinacy determinate existence difference duty ethical substance exclusive external Fichte Fichte's G. W. F. Hegel Habermas Hegel believes Hegel observes Hegel's concept Houlgate human Ibid idealism identity immediacy implies independent individual institutions intersubjective jective Jena Kant Kant's Kojčve Kojčve’s Levinas logic marriage master and slave master/slave means merely methodological individualism modern morality mutual recognition nature negation negative objective idealism objective spirit ontological organism particular person Phenomenology Phenomenology of Spirit Philosophie des Geistes Philosophy of Right Philosophy of Spirit position possession possible presupposes principle punishment rational Realphilosophie reciprocal recognition recognized reflection relation Sartre self-consciousness self-identity sense Siep solipsism struggle for recognition subjective freedom sublation teleology theory thing tion trans transcendental transgression union unity universal Zusatz
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| Title | Hegel's Ethics of Recognition |
| Author | Robert R. Williams |
| Publisher | University of California Press, 2000 |
| ISBN | 0520224922, 9780520224926 |
| Length | 433 pages |
| Subjects | › Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy |
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