Recognition and social ontology / edited by Heikki Ikäheimo and Arto Laitinen.

• Superior document: Social and critical theory : a critical horizons book series, v. 11
• TeilnehmendeR: Ikäheimo, Heikki.; Laitinen, Arto.
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Social and critical theory ; v. 11.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (412 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This unique collection focuses on the unexamined connections between two contemporary, intensively debated lines of inquiry: Hegel-inspired theories of recognition (Anerkennung) and analytical social ontology. These lines address the roots of human sociality from different conceptual perspectives and have complementary strengths, variously stressing the social constitution of persons in interpersonal relations and the emergence of social and institutional reality through collective intentionality. In this book leading theorists and younger scholars offer original analyses of the connections and suggest new ways in which theories of recognition and current approaches in analytical social ontology can enrich one another.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / H. Ikaheimo and A. Laitinen -- 1. Recognition And Social Ontology: An Introduction / Heikki Ikäheimo and Arto Laitinen -- 2. The Structure Of Desire And Recognition: Self-Consciousness And Self-Constitution / Robert B. Brandom -- 3. On Hegel’s Claim That Self-Consciousnessis “Desire Itself” (“Begierde Überhaupt”) / Robert B. Pippin -- 4. Intuition, Understanding, And The Human Form Of Life / Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer -- 5. Mutual Recognition: Hegel And Beyond / Ludwig Siep -- 6. Holism And Normative Essentialism In Hegel’s Social Ontology / Heikki Ikäheimo -- 7. The Relevance Of Hegel’s “Absolute Spirit” To Social Normativity / Paul Redding -- 8. Recognition As The Social Grammar Of Species Being In Marx / Michael Quante -- 9. Mutual Recognition And Some Related Phenomena / Margaret Gilbert -- 10. Social Space And The Ontology Of Recognition / Italo Testa -- 11. Recognition, Acknowledgement, And Acceptance / Arto Laitinen -- 12. Institutional Power, Collective Acceptance, And Recognition / Titus Stahl -- 13. The Problem Of Collective Identity:The Instituting We And The Instituted We / Vincent Descombes -- Index / H. Ikaheimo and A. Laitinen.