Jean-Jacques Rousseau revolutionized our understanding of ourselves with his brilliant investigation of amour propre - the passion that drives humans to seek the esteem, approval admiration, or love - the recognition - of their fellow beings.
"Pirsoul offers a fresh and interesting comparative perspective on the vexed issue of the politics of recognition and multiculturalism, drawing on deep case studies from New Zealand and Colombia. We need more fine-grained and contextual studies of recognition regimes at work on …
"Introduction to Recognition and Deciphering of Patterns aims to get STEM and non-STEM students acquainted with different patterns, as well as where and when specific patterns arise. In addition, the book seeks to get students to learn how to recognize patterns and distinguish t…
"Introduction to Recognition and Deciphering of Patterns aims to get STEM and non-STEM students acquainted with different patterns, as well as where and when specific patterns arise. In addition, the book seeks to get students to learn how to recognize patterns and distinguish t…
In this 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 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 thinker…