1st Edition

The Call for Recognition Naturalizing Political Norms

By R. Krishnaswamy Copyright 2023
210 Pages
by Routledge India

210 Pages
by Routledge India

210 Pages
by Routledge India

This book builds a case for how social norms are neither mere conventions nor are they merely anthropological phenomena, which are relativistic. In other words, it talks about how socio-political norms are built out of our natural social behaviour but at the same time also have objective normative validity. The volume puts forth an alternative model called the recognitional model which can help... Read more

1. Introduction                                                                                      

2. Situating Recognition                                                           

3. Pluralism and Social Recognition                                          

4. A Critique of Modern Institutions                                         

5. Towards a New Ethical Paradigm                                         

6. Socio-Natural Embeddedness

7. Socio-Cultural Norms in the Public Place                               

8. Towards a Naturalistic Paradigm of Norms                           

9. Conclusion: Lifeworld, Norms and Politics                           

Biography

R. Krishnaswamy is Associate Professor and Co-Director for the Centre for Social and Political Research, O.P. Jindal Global University, India. He has a Ph.D. from the University of Delhi in Philosophy. He has held a research fellowship at the University of Carleton, Ottawa, Canada. He has recently been a HESP/CEU post-doctoral fellow in the Philosophy Department at Central European University, Budapest, Hungary (now in Vienna). His research interests criss-cross across various disciplines. He works on issues related to the philosophy of mind and language.