The Limits of Recognition
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4758733 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert L Scott (University of Cambridge, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 21-30 |
| Publication date | 2022-11-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Angelaki (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0969-725X • E-ISSN: 1469-2899 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0969725x.2022.2139007 |
| OpenAlex | W4309715599 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 13 |
This essay critiques Rita Felski’s employment of Axel Honneth’s theorisation of “recognition” for a postcritical literary theory and, in turn, Honneth’s own appropriation of recognition from Hegel. In her article “Recognizing Class,” Felski uses Honneth’s concept of recognition to read Didier Eribon’s memoir Returning to Reims, and to argue for the importance of lived experience in analyses of class and its literary representation. This leads her to indict Marxism for its ideal of a classless society. Why should we will the abolition of class when many workers experience their class as a source of pride and belonging? What workers need is not emancipation from their class, but adequate recognition. By drawing upon Gillian Rose’s Hegelian account of recognition, this essay contends that by assuming recognition in advance as an ideal, Felski and Honneth overlook that without emancipation from bourgeois property and class relations, the recognition they presuppose remains an impossibility
Aesthetics · Appropriation · Bourgeoisie · Class (philosophy · Class conflict · Emancipation · Epistemology · Hegelianism · Ideal (ethics · Impossibility · Political science · Politics · Representation (politics · Sociology · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Hooked
The Limits of Critique
Nancy Fraser and Axel Honneth , Redistribution or Recognition? A Political-Philosophical Exchange (London and New York
Pathologies of Reason
System of Ethical Life and First Philosophy of Spirit
Hegel contra sociology
Recognizing Class
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |