03120namaa2200457uu 4500 doab81772 oapen 20260305123945.0 m o d cr|mn|---annan 220520s2022 xx |||||o ||| 0|eng d 9781003272120 9781003272120 9781032139999 9781032223322 10.4324/9781003272120 doi oapen oapen eng dc HP bicssc HPCF bicssc HPS bicssc Ikäheimo, Heikki aut Recognition and the Human Life-Form Beyond Identity and Difference Taylor & Francis 2022 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy Free-to-read Unrestricted online access star What is recognition and why is it so important? This book develops a synoptic conception of the significance of recognition in its many forms for human persons by means of a rational reconstruction and internal critique of classical and contemporary accounts. The book begins with a clarification of several fundamental questions concerning recognition. It then reconstructs the core ideas of Fichte, Hegel, Taylor, Fraser and Honneth and utilizes the insights and conceptual tools developed across these chapters for developing a case for the universal importance of recognition for humans. It argues in favor of a universalist anthropological position, unusual in the literature on recognition, that aims to construe a philosophically sound basis for a discourse of common humanity, or of a shared human life-form for which moral relations of recognition are essential. This synthetic conception of the importance of recognition provides tools for articulating deep intuitions shared across cultures about what makes human life and forms of human co-existence better or worse, and thus tools for mutual understanding about the deepest shared concerns of humanity, or of what makes us all human persons despite our differences. Recognition and the Human Life-Form will appeal to readers interested in philosophical anthropology, social and political philosophy, critical theory, and the history of philosophy. It also provides ideas and conceptual tools for fields such as anthropology, education, disability studies, international relations, law, politics, religious studies, sociology, and social research. All rights reserved http://oapen.org/content/about-rights English Philosophy bicssc Social & political philosophy bicssc Western philosophy, from c 1900 - bicssc particularism, personhood, recognition, philosophy, Honneth, universalism DOAB Library. https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/81772 0 Free-to-read: DOAB: description of the publication 92627 92627