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Literature for legal philosophy course fall 1998

Law, intersubjectivity and recognition

1. Welcome and introduction (10/9)
2. Allen Wood, Hegel's ethical thought (Cambridge up 1990) Introduction and Chapter 1: Self-actualization, p. 1-35 (17/9)
* Hegelian background of the notion of recognition
3. Axel Honneth, Kampf um Anerkennung. Zur moralischen Grammatik sozialer Konflikte (Suhrkamp 1992)Vorwort, and chapters 1: Kampf um Selbsterhaltung, and 2: Verbrechen and Sittlichkeit. (24/9)
4. Honneth, chapter 3: Kampf um Anerkennung (1/10)
5. Honneth, chapter 4: Anerkennung und Vergesellschaftung (8/10)
6. George Herbert Mead, Mind, self, and society (Un. of Chicago press 1934, 1974), part III: The Self, 152-178 and 192-226. (22/10)
* Mead's theory of formation of identity, as discussed and incorporated by Honneth in his chapter 4.
7. Jessica Benjamin, The bonds of love. Psychoanalysis, feminism, and the problem of domination (Pantheon 1988). Chapter 1: The first bond, and chapter 2: Master and Slave, p. 11-84 (29/10)
* The relation between recognition and intimate relations, in the context of psychoanalytical theory
8 and 9. Honneth, chapter 5: Muster intersubjektiver Anerkennung, and chapter 6, Persoenliche Identitat and Missachtung. (5/11 and 12/11)
10. Honneth, chapter 8: Missachtung und Widerstand, and chapter 9: Intersubjektive Bedingungen personaler Integritat. (19/11)
11. Jodi Dean, Solidarity of strangers. Feminism after identity politics (Un. of California pr 1996). Introduction and Chapter 1: Reflective solidarity, p. 1-46. (26/11)
* Relation between recognition and social solidarity
12. Alessandro Ferrara, Reflective authenticity. Rethinking the project of modernity; Routledge 1998. Chapter 5: 'Post-modern eudaimonia: dimensions of an authentic identity', p. 70-106 (3/12)
13. Nick Crossley, Intersubjectivity. The fabric of social becoming (Sage 1996). Chapter 6: Intersubjectivity and power, and chapter 7: Citizens of the lifeworld, p. 127-172. (10/12)
* Intersubjectivity, and its relation to critical theory and citizenship. Discussions of Foucault, Habermas, Mead, and Fukuyama.
14. Conclusions, overview, evaluation. (17/12)

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