Title Recognition : a chapter in the history of European ideas / Axel Honneth, Columbia University, New York ; translated by Joseph Ganahl

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 178 pages) Series The Seeley lectures John Robert Seeley lectures. Contents Methodological remarks on the history of ideas vs the history of concepts -- From Rousseau to Sartre: recognition and the loss of self -- From Hume to Mill: recognition and self-control -- Germany: recognition and self-determination -- A historical comparison of recognition: an attempt at a systematic summary Summary "This study began with an invitation by the Cambridge Centre of Political Thought to hold the biennial John Robert Seeley Lectures at the University of Cambridge in May 2017. Admittedly I was rather intimidated by the enormous reputation of this institution as a melting pot of intellectual history, so I chose the path of caution and decided to focus on a subject that clearly belongs to the history of ideas, and yet still is a subject about which I could claim a certain measure of theoretical authority. I planned to venture into the arena of the history of political thought, while still keeping to familiar philosophical ground. Thus arose the idea for my Seeley Lectures and for this book. Just as the so-called Cambridge School and the German "history of concepts" [Begriffsgeschichte] have managed to reconstruct the complicated and conflict-laden history of several key concepts in our political selfunderstanding, thereby providing insight into the historical origin of major democratic ideas, I will use the modest tools at my disposal to do the same for another idea that has become relatively significant: recognition. In the following five chapters I will attempt to uncover the historical roots of an idea we now take for granted: the idea that relations between subjects are defined by mutual dependence on esteem or recognition"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 16, 2020) Subject Political science -- Europe -- History Recognition (Philosophy) -- Political aspects -- Europe Political science -- Europe -- Philosophy Political science Political science -- Philosophy Europe Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Ganahl, Joseph Patrick, translator. LC no. 2020039006 ISBN 9781108872775 1108872778

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