Understanding Recognition

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.

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 Wäkiewicz 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. Stanis-aw Krawczyk is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Wroc-aw, Poland. His recent work is primarily in higher education studies.

Recognition: An Insight into Past and Present Societies 1. Against a Spiritual Sanatorium: Hegel's Asymmetrical Conception of Recognition 2. Struggle and Shame: A Contribution to the Phenomenology of Recognition 3. The Bourgeoisie as Humanity or Inter-class 4. Micro-sociology of Social Recognition 5. Tactical Boundary-Setting in the Struggle for Recognition 6. Dignified Inequality: Recognition of Music Taste and Class Boundaries 7. Two Recognition Gaps: The Problem of the Distribution of Respect in Polish Society 8. Ancient Greek Aristocracy As a Historical Problem 9. A Gentleman's Leisure, or the Quest for Recognition: Aspiring to Aristocratic Ranks 10. Recognition and Secularisation: Memorialising Mass Exterminations in Western and Eastern Europe 11. The Problem of Race and Recognition in the Formation of Latin American Identity 12. Popular Authors in Search of Recognition: On the Polish Field of Science Fiction in the 1980s and 1990s