Recognition theory and contemporary French moral and political philosophy: Reopening the dialogue (Reappraising the Political)

Both pedagogical and critical, this collection outlines the current state of recognition theory, studies the influence of French theory upon its evolution, and uses French thought to identity aspects of the recognitive process which are often overlooked. -- . Front matter Contents Preface List of contributors Acknowledgements PART I: French contributions to recognition theory Chapter 1 Deepening critical theory: French contributions to theories of recognition Chapter 2 The relevance of contemporary French philosophy for a theory of recognition: an interview PART II: Agonistic identity construction Chapter 3 Impossible recognition: Lacan, Butler, Žižek Chapter 4 The politics of suffering and recognition: Foucault contra Honneth Chapter 5 Sartre and Honneth on conflict and recognition Chapter 6 Tully, Foucault and agonistic struggles over recognition PART III: Embodiment and vulnerability Chapter 7 The theory of social action in Merleau-Ponty and Honneth Chapter 8 Between gender and subjectivity: Iris Marion Young on the phenomenology of lived experience PART IV: Systematic oppression and the productivity of power Chapter 9 Conflicts of recognition and critical sociology Chapter 10 Systematic misrecognition and the practice of critique: Bourdieu, Boltanski and the role of critical theory PART V: Justice-to-come: questioning equality and the presumption of finality Chapter 11 Habermas and Derrida on recognising the other Chapter 12 Honneth, Lyotard, Levinas Chapter 13 Justice-to-come in the work of Axel Honneth and Nancy Fraser References Index