Der Gedanke der Anerkennung als Norm zwischenmenschlichen Verhaltens und Kriterium der Beurteilung von sozialen Lebensformen und Institutionen hat in den letzten Jahrzehnten weltweit eine bedeutende philosophische Karriere gehabt. Dabei hat die Rezeption des Deutschen Idealismus eine entscheidende Rolle gespielt. Das gilt auch für den amerikanischen Pragmatismus von Mead bis Taylor und Brandom oder den Existentialismus und die Phänomenologie in Frankreich von Kojève bis Ricoeur. Das Buch v...

Hegel only published five books in his lifetime, and among them the Phenomenology of Spirit emerges as the most important but also perhaps the most difficult and complex. In this book Ludwig Siep follows the path from Hegel's early writings on religion, love and spirit to the milestones of his 'Jena period'. He shows how the themes of the Phenomenology first appeared in an earlier work, The Difference between Fichte's and Schelling's Systems of Philosophy, and closely examines the directio...

The theory of recognition is now a well-established and mature research paradigm in philosophy, and it is both influential in and influenced by developments in other fields of the humanities and social sciences. From debates in moral philosophy about the fundamental roots of obligation, to debates in political philosophy about the character of multicultural societies, to debates in legal theory about the structure and justification of rights, to debates in social theory about the prospects...