- Paperback: 452 pages
- Publisher: University of California Press; New Ed edition (15 Sep 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0520224922
- ISBN-13: 978-0520224926
- Product Dimensions: 2.3 x 1.5 x 0.3 cm
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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.
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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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first 110 pages are gold
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I strongly recommend this book, but I want to say a few things. I think I have an above average understanding of Hegel and I found the first 100 pages difficult. In the first 110 pages, Williams defines the concept of "recognition". this is the most important part of the book. Take your time, study this section slowly. He doesn't take short-cuts; so there is a ton of information. The next 100 pages deal with "morality", and the remainder of the book deals with "ethical; substance". this is post-graduate level, intelligent writing. Williams opens a concept that usually doesn't get detailed analysis. I took my time and reaped the benefit. Tremendous book. Get it for sure.
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