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Hegel´s Ethics of Recognition
Robert R. Williams
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Description for Hegel´s Ethics of Recognition
Paperback. A comprehensive account of Hegel's conception of recognition as the general pattern of ethical life. The author explores Hegel's intersubjective concept of spirit and shows how the idea of recognition illuminates his understanding of crime, morality, the family and war. Num Pages: 450 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPC; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 28. Weight in Grams: 694.
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.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
450
Condition
New
Number of Pages
450
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520224926
SKU
V9780520224926
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About Robert R. Williams
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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