"McBride is a sure-footed guide to the recognition literature and a clear-eyed judge of the claims to be found there. This is a very fine book." Philip Pettit, Princeton University "Cillian McBride's penetrating and broad-ranging study gives a sympathetic hearing to the claims of recognition but also exposes a multitude of errors and false assumptions in the thinking that ... Read morehas dominated the subject. His insightful analysis and acute criticism deliver a radical reappraisal of how we should respond to demands for recognition." Peter Jones, Newcastle University "In this book, McBride successfully performs a difficult feat: he gives a wide-ranging and insightful account of the various philosophical, political and sociological aspects of the idea of recognition, while at the same time presenting and providing a persuasive defence of his own 'interactive' conception of recognition." Simon Thompson, University of the West of England Show Less