O'Neill / Smith Recognition Theory as Social Research

Investigating the Dynamics of Social Conflict
2012
ISBN: 978-1-137-26292-9
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 247 Seiten, eBook

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

O'Neill, Shane

Smith, Nicholas H.

O'Neill, S.

Smith, N.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword; A.Honneth Introduction: A Recognition-Theoretic Research Programme for the Social Sciences; N.H.Smith PART I: RECOGNITION AS A CATEGORY OF SOCIAL RESEARCH Is Recognition a Basis for Social or Political Thought?; T.Pinkard Hegelian Recognition, Critical Theory and the Social Sciences; J-P.Deranty PART II: CRITICAL ASSESSMENTS OF PATTERNS OF MISRECOGNITION IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETIES Misrecognition, Marriage, and Derecognition; C.F.Zurn Work as a Sphere of Norms, Paradoxes and Ideologies of Recognition; N.H.Smith Recognition Theory as the Grounds of a General Theory of Crime as Social Harm?; M.Yar Recognition and Religious Diversity: the Case of Legal Exemptions; J.Seglow PART III: CHALLENGING THE RECOGNITION ORDER IN THE STATE AND BEYOND The Politics of Ethno-National Conflict Transformation: A Recognition-Theoretical Reading of the Peace Process in Northern Ireland; S.O'Neill Recognition as Statecraft? Contexts of Recognition and Transformations of State Membership Regimes; D.Owen Recognition and Immigration; R.Cox The Global Politics of Recognition; V.Heins

Über Autor(innen)

AXEL HONNETH Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Institute for Social Research, Goethe Universität Frankfurt, Germany and Jack C. Weinstein Professor of the Humanities, Columbia University, USA
TERRY PINKARD Professor of Philosophy, Georgetown University, USA and Ehrenprofessor, Universität Tübingen, Germany
JEAN-PHILIPPE DERANTY Associate Professor of Philosophy, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
CHRISTOPHER F. ZURN Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Kentucky, USA
NICHOLAS H. SMITH Professor of Philosophy, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
MAJID YAR Professor of Sociology, University of Hull, UK
JONATHAN SEGLOW Senior Lecturer in Political Theory, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
SHANE O'NEILL Professor of Political Theory and Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Queen's University, Belfast, UK
DAVID OWEN Professor of Social and Political Philosophy, University of Southampton, UK
RUTH COX completed her PhD dissertation entitled The Theory of Recognition and the Ethics
of Immigration at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
VOLKER HEINS Senior Researcher, Institute for Social Research at Goethe Universität Frankfurt, Germany and Faculty Fellow of the Centre for Cultural Sociology, Yale University, USA