Recognition, Work, Politics: New Directions in French Critical TheoryJean-Philippe Deranty, Danielle Petherbridge, John Rundell The essays in "Recognition, Work, Politics" indicate the diversity and continuity of contemporary French critical theory concerning both the question of politics and its philosophical articulation. These themes are approached and addressed from directions that include post-structuralism, the paradigm of the gift, and post-marxism. "Recognition, Work, Politics" also highlights critical theories developed in France today that concentrate on the central issues of recognition and work. These themes highlight the renewed reception of German Critical Theory in contemporary French thought particularly around the project of recognition developed by Axel Honneth. Philosophers and social and critical theorists published in "Recognition, Work, Politics" include Etienne Balibar, Jacques Ranciere, Axel Honneth, Christophe Dejours, Alain Caille, Christian Lazzeri, Emmanuel Renault, Gerard Raulet and Yves Sintomer. |
Contents
Chapter 1 JeanPhilippe Deranty Danielle Petherbridge John Rundell Themes and Dialogues in Contemporary French Critical Theory | 1 |
Chapter 2 Jacques Rancière The Ethical Turn of Aesthetics and Politics | 27 |
Chapter 3 Etienne Balibar Constructions and Deconstructions of the Universal | 47 |
Chapter 4 Christophe Dejours Subjectivity Work and Action | 71 |
Chapter 5 Christian Lazzeri and Alain Caillé Recognition Today The Theoretical Ethical and Political Stakes of the Concept | 89 |
Chapter 6 Axel Honneth The Work of Negativity A Psychoanalytical Revision of the Theory of Recognition | 127 |
Retrieving the Materialism in Axel Honneths Theory of Recognition | 137 |
Chapter 8 Stéphane Haber Discourse Ethics and the Problem of Nature | 165 |
Chapter 9 Emmanuel Renault Biopolitics and Social Pathologies | 183 |
Chapter 10 John Rundell Durkheim and the Reflexive Condition of Modernity | 203 |
Chapter 11 Natalie Doyle The Sacred Social Creativity and the State | 231 |
Chapter 12 Gérard Raulet Cosmopolitanism as a Matter of Domestic Policy | 263 |
the Question of Parité in France | 279 |
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