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Recognition and Social Ontology
Author(s): Heikki Ikaheimo (Editor), Arto Laitinen
- Publisher: Brill
- Publication Date: March 24, 2011
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 412 pages
- ISBN-10: 9004202900
- ISBN-13: 9789004202900
Book Description
This unique collection focuses on the unexamined connections between two contemporary, intensively debated lines of inquiry: Hegel-inspired theories of recognition (Anerkennung) and analytical social ontology. These lines address the roots of human sociality from different conceptual perspectives and have complementary strengths, variously stressing the social constitution of persons in interpersonal relations and the emergence of social and institutional reality through collective intentionality. In this book leading theorists and younger scholars offer original analyses of the connections and suggest new ways in which theories of recognition and current approaches in analytical social ontology can enrich one another.
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About the Author
Heikki Ikäheimo is Research Fellow at Macquarie University, Sydney. He has published widely on Hegel, recognition and personhood.
Arto Laitinen is University Lecturer at University of Jyväskylä, Finland. His publications include Strong Evaluation without Moral Sources (2008), Dimensions of Personhood (2007, edited with Heikki Ikäheimo), Hegel on Action (2010, edited with Constantine Sandis) and a number of articles on mutual recognition.
