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651Social Space and the Ontology of RecognitionIn Heikki Ikäheimo & Arto Laitinen (eds.), Recognition and Social Ontology, Brill. 2011.In this paper recognition is taken to be a question of social ontology, regarding the very constitution of the social space of interaction. I concentrate on the question of whether certain aspects of the theory of recognition can be translated into the terms of a socio-ontological paradigm: to do so, I make reference to some conceptual tools derived from John Searle's social ontology and Robert Brandom's normative pragmatics. My strategy consists in showing that recognitive phenomena cannot be i…Read more
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PoliticsIn Tiziana Andina (ed.), Bridging the Analytical Continental Divide. A Companion to Western Philosophy, Brill Books. pp. 241-269. 2014.
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44Recognition as Passive Power: Attractors of Recognition, Biopower, and Social PowerConstellations 24 (2): 192-205. 2017.In this paper I analyze recognition as a kind of power. I analyze the notion of power in the general sense as some sort of causal capacity, and introduce the distinction between the active power of doing something and the passive power of undergoing something. Such a distinction is needed in order to capture some central features of the phenomenon of recognition, and in particular the way that ‘being recognized’ and ‘recognizing’ are intertwined. I then argue in favor of both the conceptual and …Read more
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Alberto Casadei, Poetiche della creatività. Letteratura e scienze della mente (review)la Società Degli Individui 42. 2011.
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468The Respect Fallacy: Limits of Respect in Public DialogueIn Christian Kock & Lisa Villadsen (ed.), Rhetorical Citizenship and Public Deliberation, Pennsylvania State University Press. 2012.Deliberative politics should start from an adequate and differentiated image of our dialogical practices and their normative structures; the ideals that we eventually propose for deliberative politics should be tested against this background. In this article I will argue that equal respect, understood as respect a priori conferred on persons, is not and should not be counted as a constitutive normative ground of public discourse. Furthermore, requiring such respect, even if it might facilitate d…Read more
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383Scepsis and ScepticismIn De Laurentis Allegra & Edwards Jeffrey (eds.), The Bloomsbury Companion to Hegel. Bloomsbury/Continuum (2012), Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 273-278. 2012.Hegel's philosophy aims at responding to the questions raised by modern scepticism concerning the accessibility of the external world, of other minds, and of one's own mind. A key-role in Hegel's argumentative strategy against modern scepticism is played here by Hegel's theory of recognition. Recognition mediates the constitution of individual self-consciousness and intersubjectivity: self-knowledge is not logically independent of the awareness of other minds. At the same time, recognition insti…Read more
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929How Does Recognition Emerge from Nature? The Genesis of Consciousness in Hegel’s Jena WritingsCritical Horizons 13 (2): 176-196. 2012.The paper proposes a reconstruction of some fragments of Hegel’s Jena manuscripts concerning the natural genesis of recognitive spiritual consciousness. On this basis it will be argued that recognition has a foothold in nature. As a consequence, recognition should not be understood as a bootstrapping process, that is, as a self-positing and self-justifying normative social phenomenon, intelligible within itself and independently of anything external to it.
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19Discussione su "Il dolore dell'indeterminato" di Axel HonnethIride: Filosofia e Discussione Pubblica 16 (3): 609-624. 2003.
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663Skeptische Antinomie und Anerkennung beim jungen HegelIn Klaus Vieweg & Brady Bowman (eds.), “Kritisches Jahrbuch der Philosophie”, 8 (2003), Königshausen Und Neumann. pp. 171-178. 2003.
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6The universal form of spirit: Hegel on habit and socialityHegel-Jahrbuch 2010 (1): 215-220. 2010.