Understanding Social Struggles - (Philosophy - Enlightenment - Critique) by Hilkje Hänel & Fabian Schuppert (Paperback)

About the Book

This book brings together leading scholars working at the intersection of epistemic injustice theories and recognition theories, setting out to apply insights from this relation to contemporary phenomena and backlashes in the formation and acts of socially struggling emancipators.

Book Synopsis

Recently, both liberal philosophy of recognition and theories of epistemic injustice have come under attack for failing to reconstruct how marginalized groups find sources of recognition and agency. To understand social struggles well, we need to think of the way in which those within the struggle act towards emancipatory change instead of focusing on the (re-)actions of those in power. This volume brings together leading scholars working at the intersection of epistemic injustice theories and recognition theories, setting out to apply insights from this relation to contemporary phenomena and backlashes in the formation and acts of socially struggling emancipators - also considering ideology critique, epistemology of ignorance, standpoint theory, and theories of consciousness raising.

About the Author

Hilkje C. Hänel (Dr. phil.) teaches and researches at Universität Potsdam in political and social epistemology, feminist philosophy, political theory and applied ethics with a focus on migration and disability. --- Fabian Schuppert(Prof.) teaches and researches political theory and philosophy at Universität Potsdam. He is co-PI of the International Research Network on The Relation of Theories of Epistemic Injustice and Recognition Theory, funded by the DFG. ---