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Understanding Recognition: Conceptual and Empirical Studies book cover

1st Edition

Understanding Recognition Conceptual and Empirical Studies

Edited By Piotr Kulas, Andrzej Waśkiewicz, Stanisław Krawczyk Copyright 2023
228 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

228 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

228 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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As the concept of recognition shifts from philosophical theory to other fields of the humanities and social sciences, this volume explores the nature of this border category that exists in the space between sociological and philosophical considerations, related as it is to concepts such as status, prestige, the looking-glass self, respect, and dignity - at times being used interchangeably with... Read more

Recognition: An Insight into Past and Present Societies

Piotr Kulas, Andrzej Waśkiewicz, Stanisław Krawczyk

Part One

Philosophy

1. Against a Spiritual Sanatorium: Hegel’s Asymmetrical Conception of Recognition

Tomáš Korda

2. Struggle and Shame: A Contribution to the Phenomenology of Recognition

Andrzej Gniazdowski

3. The Bourgeoisie as Humanity or Inter-class

Szymon Wróbel

Part Two

Sociology

4. Micro-sociology of Social Recognition

Aleksander Manterys

5. Tactical Boundary-Setting in the Struggle for Recognition

Marta Bucholc

6. Dignified Inequality: Recognition of Music Taste and Class Boundaries

Henryk Domański

7. Two Recognition Gaps: The Problem of the Distribution of Respect in Polish Society

Piotr Kulas

Part Three

History and Literature

8. Ancient Greek Aristocracy As a Historical Problem

Marek Węcowski

9. A Gentleman’s Leisure, or the Quest for Recognition: Aspiring to Aristocratic Ranks

Andrzej Waśkiewicz

10. Recognition and Secularisation: Memorialising Mass Exterminations in Western and Eastern Europe

Caius Dobrescu

11. The Problem of Race and Recognition in the Formation of Latin American Identity

Karolina Filipczak

12. Popular Authors in Search of Recognition: On the Polish Field of Science Fiction in the 1980s and 1990s

Stanisław Krawczyk

Biography

Piotr Kulas is University Professor at the Faculty of 'Artes Liberales' at the University of Warsaw, Poland. He is the author and editor of numerous books and articles on elites and the Polish intelligentsia. He is the Head of Elitylab UW.

Andrzej Waśkiewicz is Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Warsaw, Poland, and the author of Strangers by Choice: An Asocial Philosophy of Life and The Idea of Political Representation and Its Paradoxes.

Stanisław Krawczyk is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Wrocław, Poland. His recent work is primarily in higher education studies.

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