Description: Please refer to the section BELOW (and NOT ABOVE) this line for the product details - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Title:Against RecognitionISBN13:9780745629322ISBN10:0745629326Author:McNay, Lois (Author)Description:The Idea Of The Struggle For Recognition Features Prominently In The Work Of Various Thinkers From Charles Taylor And Jurgen Habermas To Axel Honneth And Nancy Fraser Who Are Concerned With The Centrality Of Issues Of Identity In Modern Society In Differing Ways, These Thinkers Use The Idea Of Recognition To Develop Accounts Of The Individual Which Are Opposed To The Asocial Individualism Of Liberal Thought And To The Abstraction Of Much Work On The Subject The Idea Of Recognition Expresses The Notion That Individuality Is An Intersubjective Phenomenon Formed Through Pragmatic Interactions With Others By Highlighting The Intersubjective Features Of Individuality, The Idea Of Recognition Has Both Descriptive And Normative Content And It Has Important Implications For A Feminist Account Of Gender Identity In This Brilliant And Original Book, Lois Mcnay Argues That The Insights Of The Recognition Theorists Are Undercut By Their Reliance On An Inadequate Account Of Power The Idea Of Recognition Relies On An Account Of Social Relations As Extrapolations Of A Primal Dyad Of Interaction That Overlooks The Complex Ways In Which Individuality Is Connected To Abstract Social Structures In Contemporary Society Using Bourdieu's Relational Sociology, Mcnay Develops An Alternative Account Of Individual Agency That Connects Identity To Structure By Focussing On Issues Of Gender Identity And Agency, She Opens Up New Pathways To Move Beyond The Oppositions Between Material And Cultural Feminisms Binding:Paperback, PaperbackPublisher:Polity PressPublication Date:2008-02-04Weight:0.89 lbsDimensions:0.63'' H x 8.95'' L x 5.98'' WNumber of Pages:232Language:English
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Item Length: 9in
Item Height: 0.6in
Item Width: 6in
Author: Lois Mcnay
Publication Name: Against Recognition
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication Year: 2008
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 14.4 Oz
Number of Pages: 240 Pages
