In this significant contribution to Hegel scholarship, Robert Williams develops the most comprehensive account to date of Hegel's concept of recognition (Anerkennung). Fichte introduced the concept of recognition as a presupposition of both Rousseau's social contract and Kant's ethics. Williams shows that Hegel appropriated the concept of recognition as the general pattern of his concept of ethical life, breaking with natural law theory yet incorporating the Aristotelian view that rights and virtues are possible only within a certain kind of community.
He explores Hegel's intersubjective concept of spirit (Geist) as the product of affirmative mutual recognition and his conception of recognition as the right to have rights. Examining Hegel's Jena manuscripts, his Philosophy of Right, the Phenomenology of Spirit, and other works, Williams shows how the concept of recognition shapes and illumines Hegel's understandings of crime and punishment, morality, the family, the state, sovereignty, international relations, and war. A concluding chapter on the reception and reworking of the concept of recognition by contemporary thinkers including Derrida, Levinas, and Deleuze demonstrates Hegel's continuing centrality to the philosophical concerns of our age.
In this significant contribution to Hegel scholarship, Robert Williams develops the most comprehensive account to date of Hegel's concept of recognition (Anerkennung). Fichte introduced the concept of recognition as a presupposition of both Rousseau's social contract and Kant's ethics. Williams shows that Hegel appropriated the concept of recognition as the general pattern of his concept of ethical life, breaking with natural law theory yet incorporating the Aristotelian view that rights and virtues are possible only within a certain kind of community.
He explores Hegel's intersubjective concept of spirit (Geist) as the product of affirmative mutual recognition and his conception of recognition as the right to have rights. Examining Hegel's Jena manuscripts, his Philosophy of Right, the Phenomenology of Spirit, and other works, Williams shows how the concept of recognition shapes and illumines Hegel's understandings of crime and punishment, morality, the family, the state, sovereignty, international relations, and war. A concluding chapter on the reception and reworking of the concept of recognition by contemporary thinkers including Derrida, Levinas, and Deleuze demonstrates Hegel's continuing centrality to the philosophical concerns of our age.
Preface
Abbreviations
1 Recognition and Ethics
Introduction
The Concealment of Recognition in Hegelian Ethical
Studies
Distortions of Recognition in the French Reception of
Hegel
Recognition as Counterdiscourse of Modernity: Habermas
Michael Theunissen: Hegel's Repression of
Intersubjectivity
Ludwig Siep's.Studies of Hegel's Practical Philosophy
Recognition and the Actuality of the Rational
Plan and Overview
Part One Preliminaries: Recognition, Right, and Ethics
2 Recognition in Fichte and Schelling
Fichte
Schelling
3 Recognition in the Phenomenology of Spirit
The Intersubjective Doubling of Self-Consciousness
The Double Sign.i fications in the Concept of Recognition
Mastery and Slavery as a Determinate Shape of Recognition
The Servile Consciousness
4 Recognition in the Encyclopedia Philosophy of Spirit
Introduction and Overview
Reciprocal Recognition
Crossing the Threshold of Ethical Life
Four Dimensions of Recognition
Universal Self-Consciousness as Affirmative Self-Recognition in
Other
The Social Constitution and Mediation of Reason
5 Recognition and Right in the Jena Manuscripts
Recognition in the 1805 Jena Philosophy of Spirit
Recognition as the Origin and Relation of Right
Being-Recognized, Right and Wrong
The Intersubjective Concept of the Will
Part Two Recognition in the Philosophy of Right
6 Systematic: Issues in the Philosophy of Right
Recognition in the Argument of the Philosophy of Right
Hegel's Method of Abstraction
The Concept of the Will
From 'In-Itself' to 'For-Itself': The Development of the
Will
7 Persons, Property, and Contract
Abstract Right and Person
The Intersubjectivity of Ownership
Embodiment, or Taking Possession of Oneself
The Intersubjectivity of Contract
8 Crime and Punishment
Wrong and Fraud
Wrong, Semblance, and the Logic of Essence
Transgression as Coercion
The Impossible Possibility of Coercion
Banquo's Ghost
The Mature Theory: Punishment as the Second Coercion
Recognition and the Second Coercion
The Nullity of Transgression
Is Punishment Necessary?
9 Morality
The Moral Subject and the Difference
The Intersubjectivity of Moral Action
Purpose and Intention, Responsibility and Welfare
Hegel's Critique of the Moral Point of View
The Decline and Fall of Conscience
Transition to Ethical Life
1O Ethical Life and the family
Ethical Substance, Rights, and Duties
Love
Transforming the Dialectics of Recognition
Marriage as an Ethical Relationship
Marriage as a Contract to Transcend Contract
Embodied Intersubjectivity and Gender Roles
11 Civil Society, Poverty, and the Corporations
Civil Society as the Sphere of Disintegration and
Difference
Need and Labor, Town and Country
Antinomies in Civil Society
Poverty: Freedom and Recognition in Peril
Hegel's Portrait of Poverty
Recognition, Honor, and the Corporation
12 Recognition and the Social Contract Theory of the
State
Overview of the State as a Unity of Reciprocal
Recognitions
Patriotism
Social Contract Theory
Hegel and Rousseau
Hegel's Criticism of Fichte
13 The State as a Social Organism
Fichte on Social Contract and Organism
Hegel on Organism
The Encyclopedia Treatment of Mechanism and Organism
Mechanism and Chemism in the Science of Logic
Organism in the Aesthetics
Objective Idealism and Organism in the State
Recognition and the Spirit of the Laws
The Organic Correlation between Rights and Duties
Religious and Cultural Pluralism
14 Sovereignty, International Relations, and War
Sovereignty
War
Issues of Recognition in International Relations
The Deficiency of the International 'We'
15 Recent Views of Recognition and the Question of Ethics
Kojeve
Sartre and Hegel
Feminist Critique of Hegel
Hegel, Nietzsche, and Deleuze
Derrida and the 'Ethics of Deconstruction'
Levinas: Reciprocity and Totality in Question
Bibliography
Index
Robert R. Williams, Professor of Philosophy at Hiram College and Vice-President of the Hegel Society of America, is author of Recognition: Hegel and Fichte on the Other (1992).
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