The Experience of Injustice: A Theory of Recognition

Emmanuel Renault

Published by Columbia University Press 2019

The Experience of Injustice

A Theory of Recognition

Emmanuel Renault
Translated by: Richard A. Lynch

Volume 70 in the series New Directions in Critical Theory

https://doi.org/10.7312/rena17706

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In The Experience of Injustice, the French philosopher Emmanuel Renault opens an important new chapter in critical theory. Inspired by Axel Honneth, Renault argues that a radicalized version of Honneth’s ethics of recognition can provide a systematic alternative to the liberal-democratic projects of such thinkers as Rawls and Habermas.

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Renault Emmanuel :

Emmanuel Renault (PhD, Philosophy, Burgundy) is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris X (Nanterre). He is the author of L’Expérience de l’Injustice: Reconnaissance et Clinique de l’Injustice (La Découverte, 2004, English translation under contract at Columbia), Souffrance Sociales: Sociologie, Psychologie et Politique (La Découverte, 2008), and (with Gerard Dumenil and Michael Lowy) Lire Marx (PUF, 2014), among other titles.Emmanuel Renault is professor of philosophy at University of Paris-Nanterre. His books in English include Social Suffering: Sociology, Psychology, Politics (2017) and The Return of Work in Critical Theory: Self, Society, Politics (Columbia, 2018).

Richard A. Lynch is author of Foucault’s Critical Ethics (2016) and translator of Isabelle Thomas-Fogiel’s The Death of Philosophy: Reference and Self-Reference in Contemporary Thought (Columbia, 2011).

Reviews

James Ingram, author of Radical Cosmopolitics:
The Experience of Injustice is a major intervention into the field of critical political and social theory, and it will be heralded among the leading books in critical social theory.

Christopher F. Zurn, author of Axel Honneth:
Taking its theoretical problems and political orientation from contemporary experiences of injustice—the social and psychic sufferings of the dispossessed and deprived, the excluded and marginalized, the stigmatized, the invisible, the devalued—Renault's book proposes a major reconception of the theory of justice. Renault incisively organizes critical social theory, sociology, and psychoanalysis around a theory of the denial of recognition in its manifold forms, boldly calling for political philosophy to take sides and become a spokesperson against injustice.

Axel Honneth, author of Freedom's Right: The Social Foundations of Democratic Life:
For everyone who rightly assumes that social critique has to start from a diagnosis of what is in society experienced as an injustice or as a form of disrespect, this book is both a rich compendium and a theoretical guideline. Emmanuel Renault has done a magnificent job in outlining the empirical and philosophical contours of a critical theory based on a theory of recognition.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
TRANSLATOR’S NOTE Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
PREFACE Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
INTRODUCTION. Political Philosophy and the Clinic of Injustice Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I Injustice and the Denial of Recognition
Chapter One. SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND CRITIQUE OF POLITICS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
Chapter Two. THE APORIAS OF SOCIAL JUSTICE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
Chapter Three. THE INSTITUTIONS OF INJUSTICE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	94
PART II The Politics of Identity and Politics in Identity
Chapter Four. IDENTITY AS THE EXPERIENCE OF INJUSTICE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
Chapter Five. A DEFENSE OF IDENTITY POLITICS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
PART III Social Suffering
Chapter Six. SOCIAL CRITIQUE AS A VOICE FOR SUFFERING Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
Chapter Seven. RECOGNITION AND PSYCHIC SUFFERING Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	202
CONCLUSION. Critique as a Voice Against Injustice Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	224
NOTES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	261
NEW DIRECTIONS IN CRITICAL THEORY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	273

Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;

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Published: February 26, 2019
ISBN: 9780231548984