Recognition

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ID23729658
AuthorsJames J Chri (0000-0002-6726-7290, Cleveland State University, corresponding author), James J Chriss
Year2015
Pages1-4
Publication date2015-12-30
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueWiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/9781118663202.wberen525
OpenAlexW4253470564
ISBN9781118663202
LanguageEN
References cited13

The course of human history has registered a slow and inexorable transition from fear of the other to thoughtful reflection on the worth of the other. This opening up of humanistic sentiment across a growing diversity of human groupings beginning with the Enlightenment has culminated more recently in a politics of recognition. This is the project of making claims against a state that allegedly has denied full participation in society because of debilitating identities, whether related to race, gender, sexual orientation, and other factors. Such recognition claims are identity projects that emerge and develop very much like the dialectical movement posited by Hegel—that is, from thesis to antithesis to synthesis. This strand of idealism is opposed to the Kantian strain, which holds hope for a future global solidarity where difference dissolves into the notion of a universal humanity.

Aesthetics · Antithesis · Dehumanization · Dialectic · Diversity (politics) · Enlightenment · Epistemology · Hegelianism · Humanism · Humanity · Idealism · Identity (music) · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Solidarity · State (computer science) · Law · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Psychology · Social Psychology

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