Title Statements
- Full title :Against recognition / Lois McNay.
Summary
"The idea of the struggle for recognition features prominently in the work of various thinkers from Charles Taylor and Jurgen Habermas to Axel Honneth and Nancy Fraser who are concerned with the centrality of issues of identity in modern society. In differing ways, these thinkers use the idea of recognition to develop accounts of the individual which are opposed to the asocial individualism of liberal thought and to the abstraction of much work on the subject. The idea of recognition expresses the notion that individuality is an intersubjective phenomenon formed through pragmatic interactions with others. By highlighting the intersubjective features of individuality, the idea of recognition has both descriptive and normative content and it has important implications for a feminist account of gender identity. In this brilliant and original book, Lois McNay argues that the insights of the recognition theorists are undercut by their reliance on an inadequate account of power. The idea of recognition relies on an account of social relations as extrapolations of a primal dyad of interaction that overlooks the complex ways in which individuality is connected to abstract social structures in contemporary society."--Back cover.
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- Publication Date:©2008.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Polity
- Place of Publication:Cambridge
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2008.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (vii, 232 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- oclc:on1348904650
- LC Classification:HQ1075
- Dewey Decimal:305.3
Table of Contents
Introduction: Against Recognition -- Chapter One: Recognition and Misrecognition in the Psyche -- Chapter Two: The Politics of Recognition -- Chapter Three: Narrative and Recognition -- Chapter Four: Recognition and Redistribution -- Chapter Five: Beyond Recognition: Identity and Agency.
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