'Kate Schick and Patrick Hayden have gathered talented and forceful contributors who utilize a plurality of philosophical resources to develop recognition in a number of direct, accessible, and useful ways.' Brent J. Steele, Professor and Francis D. Wormuth Presidential Chair, University of Utah, USA 'In their carefully assembled volume, Hayden and Schick demonstrate ... Read morehow much of international politics today revolves around issues of recognition, mis-recognition and nonrecognition among competing agents. Relying on the theoretical insights of Hegel, Taylor, Habermas, Honneth and others, the volume explores the theme in three main steps, by focusing first on conceptions of recognition, next on gaps or failures of recognition and finally on the import of the theme for world society. An admirable text which deserves the widest readership.' Fred Dallmayr, Professor of Philosophy and Political Science, University of Notre Dame, USA 'Recognition and its denial permeate debates about equality and justice, culture and democracy, resistance and responsibility. Yet students of global politics have only just discovered that recognition matters in so many ways. In exploring recognition's reach, limits and failures, contributors to this absorbing volume effectively rescind the standard view of state and world as worlds apart.' Nicholas Onuf, Emeritus Professor of International Relations, Florida International University, USA
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