Recognition Theory As Social Research : Investigating the Dynamics of Social Conflict

Presents the case for an exciting new research program in the social sciences based on the theory of recognition developed by Axel Honneth and others in recent years. The theory provides a frame for revealing new insights about conflicts and the potential of recognition theory to guide just resolutions of these conflicts is also explored. The contributors to this volume present the case for an exciting new research program in the social sciences based on the theory of recognition developed by Axel Honneth and others in recent years. The book is comprised of eleven specially commissioned, previously unpublished contributions that investigate the fundamental significance of recognition for social and political thought. The theory of recognition is used as a frame for investigating the dynamics of social conflicts that arise around the institution of marriage, the organization of work, the categorization of crime, legal exemption on the grounds of religious belief, the political accommodation of ethnic and national minorities, the claims of migrants, and international relations. The potential of recognition theory to guide just resolutions of these conflicts is also explored Front Matter....Pages i-xi Introduction: A Recognition-Theoretical Research Programme for the Social Sciences....Pages 1-18 Front Matter....Pages 19-19 Is Recognition a Basis for Social or Political Thought?....Pages 21-38 Hegelian Recognition, Critical Theory, and the Social Sciences....Pages 39-60 Front Matter....Pages 61-61 Misrecognition, Marriage, and Derecognition....Pages 63-86 Work as a Sphere of Norms, Paradoxes, and Ideologies of Recognition....Pages 87-108 Recognition as the Grounds of a General Theory of Crime as Social Harm?....Pages 109-126 Recognition and Religious Diversity: The Case of Legal Exemptions....Pages 127-146 Front Matter....Pages 147-147 The Politics of Ethno-National Conflict Transformation: A Recognition-Theoretical Reading of the Peace Process in Northern Ireland....Pages 149-172 Recognition as Statecraft? Contexts of Recognition and Transformations of State Membership Regimes....Pages 173-191 Recognition and Immigration....Pages 192-212 The Global Politics of Recognition....Pages 213-230 Back Matter....Pages 231-247