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1123Analyzing Recognition: Identification, Acknowledgement and Recognitive Attitudes Towards PersonsIn Bert van den Brink & David Owen (eds.), Recognition and Power, Cambridge University Press. pp. 33-56. 2007.There is today a wide consensus that ‘recognition’ is something that we need a clear grasp of in order to understand the dynamics of political struggles, and, perhaps the constitution and dynamics of social reality more generally. Yet, the discussions on ‘recognition’ have so far often been conceptually rather inexplicit, in the sense that the very key concepts have remained largely unexplicated or undefined. Since the English word ‘recognition’ is far from unambiguous, it is possible, and to ou…Read more
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774Recognition and Social Ontology: An IntroductionIn Heikki Ikaheimo & Arto Laitinen (eds.), Recognition and Social Ontology, Brill. pp. 1-24. 2011.A substantial article length introduction to a collection on social ontology and mutual recognition.
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507Recognition and the Human Life-Form: Beyond Identity and DifferenceRoutledge. 2022.What is recognition and why is it so important? This book develops a synoptic conception of the significance of recognition in its many forms for human persons by means of a rational reconstruction and internal critique of classical and contemporary accounts. The book begins with a clarification of several fundamental questions concerning recognition. It then reconstructs the core ideas of Fichte, Hegel, Charles Taylor, Nancy Fraser, and Axel Honneth and utilizes the insights and conceptual tool…Read more
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485Hegel's Concept of Recognition - What is it?In Christian Krijnen (ed.), Recognition - German Idealism as an Ongoing Challenge, . pp. 11-38. 2014.
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446Recognition and Social Ontology (edited book)Brill. 2011.This unique collection examines the connections between two complementary approaches to philosophical social theory: Hegel-inspired theories of recognition, and analytical social ontology.
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443Animal Consciousness In Hegel's Philosophy Of Subjective SpiritHegel-Jahrbuch 2010 (1): 180-185. 2010.
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404Globalising Love - On the Nature and Scope of Love as a Form of RecognitionRes Publica 18 (1): 11-24. 2012.This article begins by tracing two issues to be kept in mind in discussing the theme of love as far back as Aristotle: on the one hand the polysemy of the term philia in Aristotle, and on the other hand the fact that there is a focal or core meaning of philia that provides order to that polysemy. Secondly, it is briefly suggested that the same issues are, mutatis mutandis, central for understanding the discussion of love or Liebe by Hegel, the central classic reference in debates on recognition.…Read more
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400Dimensions of personhoodJournal of Consciousness Studies 14 (5-6): 6-16. 2007.A substantial article-length introduction to the theme of personhood.
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364On the Role of Intersubjectivity in Hegel's Encyclopaedic Phenomenology and PsychologyHegel Bulletin 25 (1-2): 73-95. 2004.According to a widely shared view, a radical change took place in the role of intersubjectivity in Hegel's philosophy somewhere between Jena and Berlin. For instance, Jürgen Habermas's judgement is that whereas in the Jena writings – in the JenaRealphilosophien, and perhaps still in the 1807Phenomenology of Spirit– Hegel conceived of intersubjectivity as an essential element in the constitution of subjectivity and of objectivity, in Berlin Hegel's intersubjectivist conception was replaced by a m…Read more
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352Nature in Spirit: A New Direction for Hegel-studies and Hegelian PhilosophyCritical Horizons 13 (2): 149-153. 2012.
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351The concept of recognition (Anerkennung in German) has been in the center of intensive interest and debate for some time in social and political philosophy, as well as in Hegel-scholarship. The first part of the article clarifies conceptually what recognition in the relevant sense arguably is. The second part explores one possible route for arguing that the „recognitive attitudes‟ of respect and love have a necessary role in the coming about of the psychological capacities distinctive of persons…Read more
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302Sociality, Antisociality and Social Work - Political Imagination in a Social Democratic Welfare State in DeclineIn Odin Lysaker & Jonas Jakobsen (eds.), Recognition and Freedom - Axel Honneth’s Political Thought, . pp. 79-100. 2015.
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278Conceptualizing causes for lack of recognition - capacities, costs and understandingStudies in Social and Political Thought 25 (1): 25-43. 2015.
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262A Vital Human Need Recognition as Inclusion in PersonhoodEuropean Journal of Political Theory 8 (1): 31-45. 2009.Why is recognition of such an importance for humans? Why should lack of recognition motivate people to fight or work for recognition? In this article, I first discuss shortly Axel Honneth's psychologizing strategy for answering these questions, and suggest that the psychological harms of lack of recognition pointed out by Honneth are neither sufficient nor necessary for motivation to fight or work for recognition to arise. According to the alternative that I then spell out, recognition and lack …Read more
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256Holism and normative essentialism in Hegel's social ontologyIn Heikki Ikaheimo & Arto Laitinen (eds.), Recognition and Social Ontology, Brill. pp. 145--209. 2011.
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229The Times of Desire, Hope and Fear: On the Temporality of Concrete Subjectivity in Hegel’s EncyclopaediaCritical Horizons 13 (2). 2012.The aim of this article is to show that the Philosophy of Subjective Spirit in Hegel’s mature Encyclopaedia of Philosophical Sciences contains the outlines of a philosophically rich notion of the constitutive temporality of subjectivity. The temporality of the being of Hegel’s concrete subject is intimately connected with embodiment and sociality, and is thus an essential element of its fully detranscendentalized inner-worldly nature.
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216On the nature of social and institutional reality (edited book)SoPhi. 2003.What is the nature of the social reality? How do the major social institutions like money or law exist? What are the limits of individualistically-oriented social theories?These and related problems are intensely discussed in philosophy, in legal theory and in the methodology of social sciences. This collection brings together the different traditions of the contemporary discussion. It includes thought-provoking articles by John Searle, Margaret Gilbert, Ota Weinberger, Raimo Tuomela, Eerik Lage…Read more
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178Fichte on Recognizing Potential PersonsIn Kurt Seelmann & Benno Zabel (eds.), Autonomie und Normativität - Zu Hegels Rechtsphilosophie, . pp. 44-56. 2014.
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135‘Spirit’—or the Self-creating Life-form of Persons and its Constitutive LimitsIn Vojtěch Kolman & Tereza Matějčková (eds.), Perspectives on the Self: Reflexivity in the Humanities, De Gruyter. 2021.Australia experienced the most devastating bush-fire season in recorded history, and right after that the world economy stalled due to a global virus outbreak the severity of which has no modern precedent. Crises tend up speed paradigm shifts, and the one begun in 2020 certainly will. In this paper I will contribute to a shift that has been gathering momentum for some time now, the need for which the current crisis has made all too obvious. This is a shift in Kant and Hegel influenced philosophy…Read more
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106Recognition and Ambivalence: Judith Butler, Axel Honneth, and Beyond (edited book)Columbia University Press. 2021.Recognition is one of the most debated concepts in contemporary social and political thought. Its proponents, such as Axel Honneth, hold that to be recognized by others is a basic human need that is central to forming an identity, and the denial of recognition deprives individuals and communities of something essential for their flourishing. Yet critics including Judith Butler have questioned whether recognition is implicated in structures of domination, arguing that the desire to be recognized …Read more
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93On the Genus and Species of RecognitionInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 45 (4): 447-462. 2002.This article makes several conceptual proposals for a closer analysis of recognition more or less in line with Axel Honneth's account of recognition: (1) a proposal as to the genus of recognitional attitude and recognition, (2) a sketch of an analytical scheme intended to be heuristically useful for analysing the different species of recognitional attitude and recognition, (3) some proposals as to the precise contents of self-conceptions involved in each species and subspecies of recognition, an…Read more
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76Recognizing personsJournal of Consciousness Studies 14 (5-6): 224-247. 2007.In this article a wide range of candidates for features that are defining of personhood are conceived of as interrelated, yet irreducible, layers and dimensions of what it is to be a person in the full-fledged sense of the word. Three layers of personhood -- consisting of person-making psychological capacities, person-making interpersonal significances, and person-making institutional or deontic powers -- are distinguished. Running through the layers there are then two dimensions -- the deontic …Read more
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59Hegelianismus und Saint‐Simonismus, edited by Hans‐Christoph Schmidt am Busch, Ludwig Siep, Hans‐Ulrich Thamer and Norbert Waszek (review)European Journal of Philosophy 18 (1): 148-153. 2010.
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47Sisäisyys ja suunnistautuminen. Inwardness and orientation. A Festchrift to Jussi Kotkavirta (edited book)SoPhi. 2014.
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45Pathologies of Recognition: An IntroductionStudies in Social and Political Thought 25 3-24. 2015.This paper is an introduction to the special issue on Pathologies of Recognition. The first subsection briefly introduces the notion of recognition and trace its development from Fichte and Hegel to Honneth and his critics, and the second subsection turns to the concept of a social pathology. The third section provides a brief look at the individual papers. The special issue focuses on two central concepts in contemporary critical social theory: namely ‘recognition’ and ‘social pathology’. For d…Read more
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43Critical Naturalism: A ManifestoKrisis 42 (1): 108-124. 2022.The Critical Naturalism Manifesto is a common platform put forward as a basis for broad discussions around the problems faced by critical theory today. We are living in a time, e.g. a pandemic time, when present-day challenges exert immense pressure on social critique. This means that models of social critique should not be discussed from the point of view of their normative justification or political effects alone, but also with reference to their ability to tackle contemporary problematic issu…Read more
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37Spirit's embeddedness in nature: Hegel’s Decentering of Self-legislationHegel Bulletin 1 (1): 1-20. 2021.A recently widely accepted view has it that the nature-spirit distinction in Hegel is to be understood as a distinction between a space or realm that is not normative or does not involve norms, and one that is or does. Notwithstanding the merits of this view, it has tended to create a separation between nature and spirit which is both philosophically troubling and difficult to reconcile with the picture of Hegel as the arch enemy of abstract or unreconciled dualisms. In this paper I aim to show…Read more
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32Handbuch Anerkennung (edited book)Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden. 2019.Includes 70 entries on the theme of recognition, dealing with the concept, the main authors, the history of the theme, its applications, and its presence in various disciplines. The paper version to appear in late 2020. Entries available online first.
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