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R E C O G N I T I O N A N D A M B I VA L E N C E Judith Butler, Axel Honneth, Amy Allen, Robin Celikates, Jean-Philippe Deranty, Heikki Ikäheimo, Kristina Lepold, Lois McNay, David Owen, Titus Stahl EDITED BY Heikki Ikäheimo, Kristina Lepold, and Titus Stahl RECOGNITION AND AMBIVALENCE NEW DIRECTIONS IN CRITICAL THEORY NEW DIRECTIONS IN CRITICAL THEORY Amy Allen, General Editor New Directions in Critical Theory presents outstanding classic and contem- porary texts in the tradition of critical social theory, broadly construed. The series aims to renew and advance the program of critical social theory, with a particular focus on theorizing contemporary struggles around gender, race, sexuality, class, and globalization and their complex interconnections. For a complete list of titles, see page 339 RECOGNITION AND AMBIVALENCE JUDITH BUTLER, AXEL HONNETH, AMY ALLEN, ROBIN CELIKATES, JEAN-PHILIPPE DERANTY, HEIKKI IKÄHEIMO, KRISTINA LEPOLD, LOIS MCNAY, DAVID OWEN, TITUS STAHL EDITED BY HEIKKI IKÄHEIMO, KRISTINA LEPOLD, AND TITUS STAHL Columbia University Press New York Columbia University Press Publishers Since 1893 New York Chichester, West Sussex cup . columbia. edu Copyright © 2021 Columbia University Press All rights reserved Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data Names: Ikäheimo, Heikki, editor. | Lepold, Kristina, editor. | Stahl, Titus, 1979– editor. Title: Recognition and ambivalence / edited by Heikki Ikäheimo, Kristina Lepold, and Titus Stahl. Description: New York : Columbia University Press, 2021. | Series: New directions in critical theory | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2020046693 (print) | LCCN 2020046694 (ebook) | ISBN 9780231177603 (hardback) | ISBN 9780231177610 (trade paperback) | ISBN 9780231544214 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Recognition (Philosophy) | Honneth, Axel, 1949– | Butler, Judith, 1956– Classification: LCC B105.R23 R39 2021 (print) | LCC B105.R23 (ebook) | DDC 128/.3— dc23 LC record available at https:// lccn . loc . gov / 2020046693 LC ebook record available at https:// lccn . loc . gov / 2020046694 Columbia University Press books are printed on permanent and durable acid- free paper. Printed in the United States of America Cover design: Chang Jae Lee CONTENTS Introduction 1 Heikki Ikäheimo, Kristina Lepold, and Titus Stahl 1 Recognition Between Power and Normativity: A Hegelian Critique of Judith Butler 21 Axel Honneth 2 Recognition and the Social Bond: A Response to Axel Honneth 31 Judith Butler 3 Intelligibility and Authority in Recognition: A Reply 55 Axel Honneth 4 Recognition and Mediation: A Second Reply to Axel Honneth 61 Judith Butler 5 Historicizing Recognition: From Ontology to Teleology 69 Lois McNay vi (cid:89) Contents 6 Recognizing Ambivalence: Honneth, Butler, and Philosophical Anthropology 99 Amy Allen 7 How Should We Understand the Ambivalence of Recognition? Revisiting the Link Between Recognition and Subjection in the Works of Althusser and Butler 129 Kristina Lepold 8 Recognition, Constitutive Domination, and Emancipation 161 Titus Stahl 9 Return to Reification: An Attempt at Systematization 191 Heikki Ikäheimo 10 Negativity in Recognition: Post- Freudian Legacies in Contemporary Critical Theory 223 Jean- Philippe Deranty 11 Beyond Needs: Recognition, Conflict, and the Limits of Institutionalization 257 Robin Celikates 12 Freedom, Equality, and Struggles of Recognition: Tully, Rancière, and the Agonistic Reorientation 293 David Owen Contributors 321 Index 325 RECOGNITION AND AMBIVALENCE INTRODUCTION Heikki Ikäheimo, Kristina Lepold, and Titus Stahl Few concepts in contemporary social and political thought have attracted as widespread an interest as the concept of recognition. Much of its appeal seems to stem from the fact that it builds on an experience with which virtu- ally everyone is familiar, namely the experience of depending on others in one’s relation to oneself, for better or for worse. This experience takes many forms. Being ignored by a friend at a party hurts when we find out that she was aware of our presence all along. Receiving praise from a colleague for work we invested time and effort in makes us feel proud and happy. Being sub- jected to extended background checks at an airport makes us question how welcome we are in the country in question. Exam- ples such as these illustrate that others are involved in shaping our lives and self-p erceptions through the way they see and treat us. It is precisely this connection between self and other that the concept of recognition promises to shed light on. The current interest in recognition— a concept that can be found in the works of a variety of thinkers, but which is, at least in the tradition of European philosophy, most commonly asso- ciated with Hegel—i s largely thanks to the theoretical interven- tions of Charles Taylor and Axel Honneth at the beginning of
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