Recognition Theory as Social Research - by Shane O'Neill & Nicholas H Smith (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

Presents the case for an exciting new research program in the social sciences based on the theory of recognition developed by Axel Honneth and others in recent years. The theory provides a frame for revealing new insights about conflicts and the potential of recognition theory to guide just resolutions of these conflicts is also explored.

About the Author

AXEL HONNETH Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Institute for Social Research, Goethe Universität Frankfurt, Germany and Jack C. Weinstein Professor of the Humanities, Columbia University, USA TERRY PINKARD Professor of Philosophy, Georgetown University, USA and Ehrenprofessor, Universität Tübingen, Germany JEAN-PHILIPPE DERANTY Associate Professor of Philosophy, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia CHRISTOPHER F. ZURN Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Kentucky, USA NICHOLAS H. SMITH Professor of Philosophy, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia MAJID YAR Professor of Sociology, University of Hull, UK JONATHAN SEGLOW Senior Lecturer in Political Theory, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK SHANE O'NEILL Professor of Political Theory and Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Queen's University, Belfast, UK DAVID OWEN Professor of Social and Political Philosophy, University of Southampton, UK RUTH COX completed her PhD dissertation entitled The Theory of Recognition and the Ethics of Immigration at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia VOLKER HEINS Senior Researcher, Institute for Social Research at Goethe Universität Frankfurt, Germany and Faculty Fellow of the Centre for Cultural Sociology, Yale University, USA