Revolutionary Recognition

Richard Gunn, Adrian Wilding (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

192 Seiten

2022
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-19927-9 (ISBN)

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Revolutionary Recognition represents a major contribution to contemporary political theory. It argues that human emancipation is only possible in a society characterised by 'mutual recognition'. In present-day political theory, the term 'recognition' has become popular and widely discussed, but has become synonymous with reformist scenarios, such as social democratic politics and the politics of identity.

Richard Gunn and Adrian Wilding undertake a comprehensive critique of existing understandings of recognition, particularly those of Axel Honneth and Charles Taylor, returning ‘recognition’ to its original meaning in the work of Hegel and Marx, and showing how mutual recognition has revolutionary rather than merely reformist implications. Gunn’s and Wilding’s work is unapologetically political and introduces a new principle – 'mutual recognition' – around which radical politics can organise. This book is a ground-breaking contribution to left wing theory and is relevant as both a scholarly text and a rallying cry to the Left.

Richard Gunn lectured in Political Theory at Edinburgh University, UK, until his retirement in 2011. Adrian Wilding is a Fellow of the Centre for British Studies at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany.

Foreword by John Holloway
Acknowledgements

Introduction
1: Hegel’s Dangerous Idea
2: Marx as Thinker of Recognition
3: Revolutionary or Less-Than-Revolutionary Recognition?
4: Mutual Recognition in Practice
5: Recognition’s Environment
Conclusion

References
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	15.01.2021
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-10	1-350-19927-3 / 1350199273
ISBN-13	978-1-350-19927-9 / 9781350199279
Zustand	Neuware