What is recognition and why is it so important? This book develops a synoptic conception of the significance of recognition in its many forms for human persons by means of a rational reconstruction and internal critique of classical and contemporary accounts.

Heikki Ikäheimo is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at UNSW Sydney, Australia. He is specialized in Hegel, recognition, personhood, social ontology, and critical social philosophy. His previous publications include the monographs Anerkennung (2014) and Self-Consciousness and Intersubjectivity (2000), the co-edited volumes Handbuch Anerkennung (2021), Recognition and Ambivalence (2021), Recognition and Social Ontology (2011), and Dimensions of Personhood (2007), as well as numerous articles and book-chapters.

Foreword

1. Preliminary Questions

2. Fichte: Recognition and Personhood

3. Hegel: Recognition and 'Spirit' or the Human Life-Form

4. Charles Taylor and Nancy Fraser: Recognition, Identity, and Inclusion

5. Axel Honneth: The Recognition Paradigm Between Universalism and Historicism

6. Recognition, the Human Life-Form, and Full-Fledged Personhood