Political Recognition and Æsthetic Judgement

Author: Corcoran, Paul

Source: Theoria, Volume 55, Number 115, April 2008 , pp. 64-90(27)

Publisher: Berghahn Journals

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Abstract:

The concept of recognition has been employed as a term of art in sovereign diplomacy, and in a philosophical tradition ranging from Plato to Hegel as an archetype of the emergence of political association leading to ethical civil relations. Recent liberal theorists have adapted the Hegelian 'struggle for recognition' to strengthen the argument for humane respect and human rights in the modern, multicultural state. This article emphasizes the cognitive processes and perceptual capacities of recognition. Drawing on Kant and Arendt, this article argues for a broadly aesthetic view of politics as a basis for ethical and moral appraisal, and illustrates this approach with hypothetical and actual examples of politics and art.

Keywords: RECOGNITION; ÆSTHETICS; HEGEL; KANT; ARENDT; HYPER-REALISM; IMPRESSIONISM

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.3167/th.2007.5511505

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