Recognition, work, politics : new directions in French critical theory / / [edited] by Jean-Philippe Deranty ... [et al.].

• Superior document: Social and critical theory, v. 5
• TeilnehmendeR: Deranty, Jean-Philippe.
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Social and critical theory ; v. 5.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (322 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

The essays in Recognition, Work, Politics indicate the diversity and continuity of contemporary French critical theory concerning both the question of politics and its philosophical articulation. These themes are approached and addressed from directions that include post-structuralism, the paradigm of the gift, and post-marxism. Recognition, Work, Politics also highlights critical theories developed in France today that concentrate on the central issues of recognition and work. These themes highlight the renewed reception of German Critical Theory in contemporary French thought particularly around the project of recognition developed by Axel Honneth. Philosophers and social and critical theorists published in Recognition, Work, Politics include Etienne Balibar, Jacques Rancière, Axel Honneth, Christophe Dejours, Alain Caillé, Christian Lazzeri, Emmanuel Renault, Gérard Raulet and Yves Sintomer.

Table of Contents

Themes and dialogues in contemporary French critical theory / Jean-Philippe Deranty, Danielle Petherbridge, John Rundell -- The ethical turn of aesthetics and politics / Jacques Rancière -- Constructions and deconstructions of the universal / Etienne Balibar -- Subjectivity, work, and action / Christophe Dejours -- Recognition today: the theoretical, ethical, and political stakes of the concept / Christian Lazzeri and Alain Caillé -- The work of negativity: a psychoanalytical revision of the theory of recognition / Axel Honneth -- Repressed materiality: retrieving the materialism in Axel Honneth's theory of recognition / Jean-Philippe Deranty -- Discourse ethics and the problem of nature / Stéphane Haber -- Biopolitics and social pathologies / Emmanuel Renault -- Durkheim and the reflexive condition of modernity / John Rundell -- The sacred, social creativity, and the state / Natalie Doyle -- Cosmopolitanism as a matter of domestic policy / Gérard Raulet -- Gender and political representation: the question of parité in France / Yves Sintomer.