Onni Hirvonen
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 93674 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Onni Hirvonen |
| PRENOMES | Onni |
| SOBRENOME | Hirvonen |
| ASSINATURA | HIRVONEN O |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Jyväskylä |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8493-7420 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2012 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Ambivalence, universality, and collectives—Three questions for recognition theory
This text outlines three interlinked questions for contemporary recognition theory: (a) the question of ambivalence, (b) the question of universality/historicity, and (c) the question of collective recognition. It is argued that all the questions present "forks" in the theoretical road, providing two or more distinct pathways forward. Different responses to these questions lead to three distinct approaches to recognition theory and, consequently,…
Introduction
Work as a domain of life of central significance to the values of democracy and freedom suffered comparative neglect from the 1980s until relatively recently in Anglophone political theory and philosophy.This was due, in part, to influential socio-political imaginaries conceiving work as embedded within an economic system characterised, in contrast to the "communicative lifeworld" realms of the family, civil society, and the public sphere, by a "…
Limits of Workplace Democracy
Should groups become self-interpreting agents
This paper examines whether groups can and should be self-interpreting agents. It seems that at least groups based on shared interests, ‘interest groups’, and groups providing a collective identity, ‘identity groups’, would prima facie benefit from becoming self-interpreting. This is a claim which is reflected both in political philosophy and analyses of group agency. In this paper we evaluate this claim, first, by providing a taxonomy of groups …
The Theory and Practice of Recognition
The Theory and Practice of Recognition
This chapter discusses the range of independent contributions that delve into the interface of recognition and practical life. However, to begin with, this introduction gives an outline of the concept of recognition and the current state of recognition theory, identifying some central issues worth attention and highlighting the points that the contributors to this volume have raised. The concepts and phenomena of recognition are also at the heart…
Theory and Practice of Recognition
Theory and Practice of Recognition
The Problem of the First Belief
Attributing moral responsibility to an agent requires that the agent is a capable member of a moral community. Capable members of a moral community are often thought of as moral reasoners (or moral persons) and, thus, to attribute moral responsibility to collective agents would require showing that they are capable of moral reasoning. It is argued here that those theories that understand collective reasoning and collective moral agency in terms o…
Recognitive arguments for workplace democracy
In this paper we have a twofold aim. First, we wish to show that commitments within recognition theory lend themselves readily for arguments for workplace democratization. This is done through arguing that authoritarian forms of labour organization go against fundamental recognitive needs, generating injustice and unnecessary social suffering that could be ameliorated through giving workers a proper voice. In conjunction with this aim, we offer a…
On the ontology of social pathologies
The recent years have seen a rehabilitation of the concept of social pathology in the critical social theory. However, several pertinent questions about how to understand social pathologies remain. One of the big issues is, who is actually ill when a society is ill? Is it certain individuals, a large proportion of the population, groups, institutions, or the society as a whole? And what does it mean for these entities to be in a pathological stat…
Populism as a pathological form of politics of recognition
This article combines the neo-Hegelian theory of recognition with an analysis of social pathologies to show how the populist formulations of political goals in struggles for recognition are - despite their potential positive motivating force - socially pathological. The concept of recognition, combined with the idea of social pathologies, can thus be used to introduce normative considerations into the populism analysis. In this article it is argu…
Groups as Persons? A Suggestion for a Hegelian Turn
Christian List and Philip Pettit have recently argued for a performative theory of personhood in which all agents who manage to perform in the space of obligations are taken as persons. Based on this account they claim that group agents are also persons. This theory has been challenged on the grounds of its historical accuracy, lack of political relevance, and contestability of the concept of personhood. This paper aims to take a new perspective …
Insults, humour and freedom of speech
In this article we argue that freedom of speech should be understood as a social freedom. In the public discussion after the Charlie Hebdo attacks, it has often been understood as an absolute right to say anything – to offend, to make a fool of others and of oneself, and to express any opinion regardless of the consequences. We challenge this view and propose that advocating freedom of speech without understanding its social foundations is mislea…
Recognition and democracy - An introduction
This is an introduction to a special issue on recognition and democracy. We outline the constitutive and enabling relations between democracy and recognition. We distinguish between pre-political and political forms of identity and recognition, between horizontal and vertical forms of recognition, and between democratic and other ways or arranging the vertical and horizontal aspects of political life. We also distinguish between the roles of a su…
Democratic institutions and recognition of individual identities
This paper draws from two central intuitions that characterize modern western societies. The first is the normative claim that our identities should be recognized in an authentic way. The second intuition is that our common matters are best organized through democratic decision-making and democratic institutions. It is argued here that while deliberative democracy is a promising candidate for just organization of recognition relationships, it can…
Taylor and the problem of recognizing cultural groups
Recognition of cultural groups is an issue that puzzles those involved in the discussions around multiculturalism. Charles Taylor (1994 Taylor, C. 1994. “The politics of recognition”. In Multiculturalism. Examining the politics of recognition, Edited by: Gutmann, A. 25–74. Princeton: Princeton University Press. [Crossref] , [Google Scholar]) has done important groundwork in his ‘The politics of recognition’ where different possibilities of multic…
Populism as a pathological form of politics of recognition
This article combines the neo-Hegelian theory of recognition with an analysis of social pathologies to show how the populist formulations of political goals in struggles for recognition are - despite their potential positive motivating force - socially pathological. The concept of recognition, combined with the idea of social pathologies, can thus be used to introduce normative considerations into the populism analysis. In this article it is argu…
Recognitive arguments for workplace democracy
In this paper we have a twofold aim. First, we wish to show that commitments within recognition theory lend themselves readily for arguments for workplace democratization. This is done through arguing that authoritarian forms of labour organization go against fundamental recognitive needs, generating injustice and unnecessary social suffering that could be ameliorated through giving workers a proper voice. In conjunction with this aim, we offer a…
Groups as Persons? A Suggestion for a Hegelian Turn
Christian List and Philip Pettit have recently argued for a performative theory of personhood in which all agents who manage to perform in the space of obligations are taken as persons. Based on this account they claim that group agents are also persons. This theory has been challenged on the grounds of its historical accuracy, lack of political relevance, and contestability of the concept of personhood. This paper aims to take a new perspective …
Insults, humour and freedom of speech
In this article we argue that freedom of speech should be understood as a social freedom. In the public discussion after the Charlie Hebdo attacks, it has often been understood as an absolute right to say anything – to offend, to make a fool of others and of oneself, and to express any opinion regardless of the consequences. We challenge this view and propose that advocating freedom of speech without understanding its social foundations is mislea…
Democratic institutions and recognition of individual identities
This paper draws from two central intuitions that characterize modern western societies. The first is the normative claim that our identities should be recognized in an authentic way. The second intuition is that our common matters are best organized through democratic decision-making and democratic institutions. It is argued here that while deliberative democracy is a promising candidate for just organization of recognition relationships, it can…
Recognition and democracy - An introduction
This is an introduction to a special issue on recognition and democracy. We outline the constitutive and enabling relations between democracy and recognition. We distinguish between pre-political and political forms of identity and recognition, between horizontal and vertical forms of recognition, and between democratic and other ways or arranging the vertical and horizontal aspects of political life. We also distinguish between the roles of a su…
Taylor and the problem of recognizing cultural groups
Recognition of cultural groups is an issue that puzzles those involved in the discussions around multiculturalism. Charles Taylor (1994 Taylor, C. 1994. “The politics of recognition”. In Multiculturalism. Examining the politics of recognition, Edited by: Gutmann, A. 25–74. Princeton: Princeton University Press. [Crossref] , [Google Scholar]) has done important groundwork in his ‘The politics of recognition’ where different possibilities of multic…
Insults, humour and freedom of speech
In this article we argue that freedom of speech should be understood as a social freedom. In the public discussion after the Charlie Hebdo attacks, it has often been understood as an absolute right to say anything – to offend, to make a fool of others and of oneself, and to express any opinion regardless of the consequences. We challenge this view and propose that advocating freedom of speech without understanding its social foundations is mislea…
Recognition and democracy - An introduction
This is an introduction to a special issue on recognition and democracy. We outline the constitutive and enabling relations between democracy and recognition. We distinguish between pre-political and political forms of identity and recognition, between horizontal and vertical forms of recognition, and between democratic and other ways or arranging the vertical and horizontal aspects of political life. We also distinguish between the roles of a su…
Democratic institutions and recognition of individual identities
This paper draws from two central intuitions that characterize modern western societies. The first is the normative claim that our identities should be recognized in an authentic way. The second intuition is that our common matters are best organized through democratic decision-making and democratic institutions. It is argued here that while deliberative democracy is a promising candidate for just organization of recognition relationships, it can…
Groups as Persons? A Suggestion for a Hegelian Turn
Christian List and Philip Pettit have recently argued for a performative theory of personhood in which all agents who manage to perform in the space of obligations are taken as persons. Based on this account they claim that group agents are also persons. This theory has been challenged on the grounds of its historical accuracy, lack of political relevance, and contestability of the concept of personhood. This paper aims to take a new perspective …
On the ontology of social pathologies
The recent years have seen a rehabilitation of the concept of social pathology in the critical social theory. However, several pertinent questions about how to understand social pathologies remain. One of the big issues is, who is actually ill when a society is ill? Is it certain individuals, a large proportion of the population, groups, institutions, or the society as a whole? And what does it mean for these entities to be in a pathological stat…
Populism as a pathological form of politics of recognition
This article combines the neo-Hegelian theory of recognition with an analysis of social pathologies to show how the populist formulations of political goals in struggles for recognition are - despite their potential positive motivating force - socially pathological. The concept of recognition, combined with the idea of social pathologies, can thus be used to introduce normative considerations into the populism analysis. In this article it is argu…
The Problem of the First Belief
Attributing moral responsibility to an agent requires that the agent is a capable member of a moral community. Capable members of a moral community are often thought of as moral reasoners (or moral persons) and, thus, to attribute moral responsibility to collective agents would require showing that they are capable of moral reasoning. It is argued here that those theories that understand collective reasoning and collective moral agency in terms o…
Recognitive arguments for workplace democracy
In this paper we have a twofold aim. First, we wish to show that commitments within recognition theory lend themselves readily for arguments for workplace democratization. This is done through arguing that authoritarian forms of labour organization go against fundamental recognitive needs, generating injustice and unnecessary social suffering that could be ameliorated through giving workers a proper voice. In conjunction with this aim, we offer a…
The Theory and Practice of Recognition
The Theory and Practice of Recognition
This chapter discusses the range of independent contributions that delve into the interface of recognition and practical life. However, to begin with, this introduction gives an outline of the concept of recognition and the current state of recognition theory, identifying some central issues worth attention and highlighting the points that the contributors to this volume have raised. The concepts and phenomena of recognition are also at the heart…
Theory and Practice of Recognition
Theory and Practice of Recognition
Should groups become self-interpreting agents
This paper examines whether groups can and should be self-interpreting agents. It seems that at least groups based on shared interests, ‘interest groups’, and groups providing a collective identity, ‘identity groups’, would prima facie benefit from becoming self-interpreting. This is a claim which is reflected both in political philosophy and analyses of group agency. In this paper we evaluate this claim, first, by providing a taxonomy of groups …
Ambivalence, universality, and collectives—Three questions for recognition theory
This text outlines three interlinked questions for contemporary recognition theory: (a) the question of ambivalence, (b) the question of universality/historicity, and (c) the question of collective recognition. It is argued that all the questions present "forks" in the theoretical road, providing two or more distinct pathways forward. Different responses to these questions lead to three distinct approaches to recognition theory and, consequently,…
Introduction
Work as a domain of life of central significance to the values of democracy and freedom suffered comparative neglect from the 1980s until relatively recently in Anglophone political theory and philosophy.This was due, in part, to influential socio-political imaginaries conceiving work as embedded within an economic system characterised, in contrast to the "communicative lifeworld" realms of the family, civil society, and the public sphere, by a "…
Limits of Workplace Democracy
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