Recognition - Cillian Mcbride

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Résumé :
Everyone cares about recognition: no one wants to be treated with disrespect, insulted, humiliated, or simply ignored. In this compelling new book, McBride examines how a basic need for recognition is the motivation behind struggles for inclusion and equality in contemporary society.

Biographie:
Cillian McBride is Lecturer in Political Theory at Queen's University, Belfast.

Sommaire:
Acknowledgements vii Introduction 1 1 The Politics of Recognition 9 2 Respect 42 3 Esteem and Social Distinction 72 4 Justice and Recognition 103 5 The Struggle for Recognition 134 Notes 164 References 171 Index 180

McBride is a sure-footed guide to the recognition literature and a clear-eyed judge of the claims to be found there. This is a very fine book. Philip Pettit, Princeton University Cillian McBride's penetrating and broad-ranging study gives a sympathetic hearing to the claims of recognition but also exposes a multitude of errors and false assumptions in the thinking that has dominated the subject. His insightful analysis and acute criticism deliver a radical reappraisal of how we should respond to demands for recognition. Peter Jones, Newcastle University In this book, McBride successfully performs a difficult feat: he gives a wide-ranging and insightful account of the various philosophical, political and sociological aspects of the idea of recognition, while at the same time presenting and providing a persuasive defence of his own 'interactive' conception of recognition. Simon Thompson, University of the West of England