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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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