Recognition and Social Ontology
Biographical note
Heikki Ikäheimo is Research Fellow at Macquarie University, Sydney. He has published widely on Hegel, recognition and personhood.
Arto Laitinen is University Lecturer at University of Jyväskylä, Finland. His publications include Strong Evaluation without Moral Sources (2008), Dimensions of Personhood (2007, edited with Heikki Ikäheimo), Hegel on Action (2010, edited with Constantine Sandis) and a number of articles on mutual recognition.
Arto Laitinen is University Lecturer at University of Jyväskylä, Finland. His publications include Strong Evaluation without Moral Sources (2008), Dimensions of Personhood (2007, edited with Heikki Ikäheimo), Hegel on Action (2010, edited with Constantine Sandis) and a number of articles on mutual recognition.
Readership
All those interested in the social ontology of personhood, the constitution of social and institutional reality and contemporary philosophy of recognition, as well as Hegel-scholars.
Table of contents
1. Heikki Ikäheimo & Arto Laitinen
Recognition and Social Ontology
Recognition and the Social Ontology of Personhood
2. Robert B. Brandom
The Structure of Desire and Recognition: Self-Consciousness and Self-Constitution
3. Robert B. Pippin
On Hegel’s Claim that Self-Consciousness is “Desire Itself” (“Begierde überhaupt”) Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer
Intuition, Understanding, and the Human Form of Life
Hegel, Marx, and Beyond: Recognition, Spirit and Species Being
5. Ludwig Siep
Mutual Recognition: Hegel and Beyond
6. Heikki Ikäheimo
Holism and Normative Essentialism in Hegel’s Social Ontology
7. Paul Redding
The Relevance of Hegel’s “Absolute Spirit” to Social Normativity
8. Michael Quante
Recognition as the Social Grammar of Species Being in Marx
Groups, Institutions and Recognition
9. Margaret Gilbert
Mutual Recognition and Some Related Phenomena
10. Italo Testa
Social Space and the Ontology of Recognition
11. Arto Laitinen
Recognition, Acknowledgement, and Acceptance
12. Titus Stahl
Institutional Power, Collective Acceptance, and Recognition
13. Vincent Descombes
The Problem of Collective Identity: The Instituting We and the Instituted We
Notes
Recognition and Social Ontology
Recognition and the Social Ontology of Personhood
2. Robert B. Brandom
The Structure of Desire and Recognition: Self-Consciousness and Self-Constitution
3. Robert B. Pippin
On Hegel’s Claim that Self-Consciousness is “Desire Itself” (“Begierde überhaupt”) Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer
Intuition, Understanding, and the Human Form of Life
Hegel, Marx, and Beyond: Recognition, Spirit and Species Being
5. Ludwig Siep
Mutual Recognition: Hegel and Beyond
6. Heikki Ikäheimo
Holism and Normative Essentialism in Hegel’s Social Ontology
7. Paul Redding
The Relevance of Hegel’s “Absolute Spirit” to Social Normativity
8. Michael Quante
Recognition as the Social Grammar of Species Being in Marx
Groups, Institutions and Recognition
9. Margaret Gilbert
Mutual Recognition and Some Related Phenomena
10. Italo Testa
Social Space and the Ontology of Recognition
11. Arto Laitinen
Recognition, Acknowledgement, and Acceptance
12. Titus Stahl
Institutional Power, Collective Acceptance, and Recognition
13. Vincent Descombes
The Problem of Collective Identity: The Instituting We and the Instituted We
Notes
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