Recognition and Dissent. Schelling's Conception of Recognition and its Contribution to Contemporary Political Philosophy

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In the present article I offer an alternative notion of recognition consisting in understanding it in terms of fundamental and foundational dissent. My thesis is that thinking of recognition in terms of dissent makes visible some problems in the usual understanding of recognition in contemporary debates on ethics, politics and right, such as the one about the conditions for a fair dialogue between cultures and/or religions. In doing so, this alternative to the broadly used concept of recognition opens up the possibility for reconsidering the way how the theoretic framework in such debates uses to be built up. This alternative comprehension of recognition is based on Schelling's New Deduction of Natural Right (1795/96). I will firstly examine the widespread notion of recognition, according to which recognition basically consists in social inclusion of individuals in an already established social order or system of values and meanings. I will analyze two cases of the modern struggle for recognition and very briefly refer to Kant's and Fichte's accounts on recognition in order to illustrate this way of conceiving and materializing recognition and to identify its critical points. then I will offer a reconstruction of Schelling's concept of recognition and show at what extent his account on recognition can be employed to solve the critical points in the traditional understanding of recognition and of some of its related concepts.
Originele taal-2English
TitelRecognition - German Idealism as an Ongoing Challenge
RedacteurenChristian Krijnen
Plaats van productieLeiden - Boston
UitgeverijBrill
Pagina's143-164
Aantal pagina's22
Volume10
ISBN van elektronische versie978-90-04-26260-7
ISBN van geprinte versie978-90-04-26228-7
StatusPublished - 2014

Publicatie series

NaamCritical Studies in German Idealism
UitgeverijBrill
Volume10
ISSN van geprinte versie1878-9986

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Christian Krijnen

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