Recognition, though it figures profoundly in our understanding of
objects and persons, identity and ideas, has never before been the
subject of a single, sustained philosophical inquiry. This work, by
one of contemporary philosophy's most distinguished voices, pursues
recognition through its various philosophical guises and
meanings--and, through the "course of recognition," seeks to
develop nothing less than a proper hermeneutics of mutual
recognition.
Originally delivered as lectures at the Institute for the Human
Sciences at Vienna, the essays collected here consider recognition
in three of its forms. The first chapter, focusing on knowledge of
objects, points to the role of recognition in modern epistemology;
the second, concerned with what might be called the recognition of
responsibility, traces the understanding of agency and moral
responsibility from the ancients up to the present day; and the
third takes up the problem of recognition and identity, which
extends from Hegel's discussion of the struggle for recognition
through contemporary arguments about identity and multiculturalism.
Throughout, Paul Ricoeur probes the significance of our capacity to
recognize people and objects, and of self-recognition and
self-identity in relation to the gift of mutual recognition.
Drawing inspiration from such literary texts as "The Odyssey" and
"Oedipus at Colonus," and engaging some of the classic writings of
the Continental philosophical tradition--by Kant, Hobbes, Hegel,
Augustine, Locke, and Bergson--"The Course of Recognition" ranges
over vast expanses of time and subject matter and in the process
suggests a number of highly insightful ways of thinking through the
majorquestions of modern philosophy.
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