Recognition: Recognizing The Brother And The Other: Avishai Margalit

Author: Margalit, Avishai

Source: Supplement to the Proceedings of The Aristotelian Society, Volume 75, Number 1, July 2001 , pp. 127-139(13)

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Abstract:

Recognition is a name of a problem rooted in German idealism and Hegel's thought. It is not one problem but a family of problems. Indeed, it is a research programme, in which Axel Honneth is an important practitioner.

The tree of knowledge, like other trees, should be inspected by its fruits and not by exposing its roots. So my main concern is in rendering the problem of recognition in current idiom, rather than in Hegel's original idiom. What I shall try to do here is to present an account of the problem of recognition, which is parallel to the account suggested in Honneth's Struggle of Recognition. It is parallel in Plutarch's sense of `parallel' lives, namely as an object of comparison.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-8349.00082

Affiliations: 1: Hebrew University, Jerusalem

Publication date: 2001-07-01