Hegel's Ethics of Recognition

Robert R. Williams, Professor of Philosophy at Hiram College and Vice-President of the Hegel Society of America, is author of Recognition: Hegel and Fichte on the Other (1992).

• Preface Abbreviations 1 Recognition and EthicsIntroduction The Concealment of Recognition in Hegelian Ethical Studies Distortions of Recognition in the French Reception of Hegel Recognition as Counterdiscourse of Modernity: Habermas Michael Theunissen: Hegel's Repression of Intersubjectivity Ludwig Siep's.Studies of Hegel's Practical Philosophy Recognition and the Actuality of the Rational Plan and Overview Part One Preliminaries: Recognition, Right, and Ethics 2 Recognition in Fichte and Schelling Fichte Schelling 3 Recognition in the Phenomenology of Spirit The Intersubjective Doubling of Self-Consciousness The Double Sign.i fications in the Concept of Recognition Mastery and Slavery as a Determinate Shape of Recognition The Servile Consciousness 4 Recognition in the Encyclopedia Philosophy of Spirit Introduction and Overview Reciprocal Recognition Crossing the Threshold of Ethical Life Four Dimensions of Recognition Universal Self-Consciousness as Affirmative Self-Recognition in Other The Social Constitution and Mediation of Reason 5 Recognition and Right in the Jena Manuscripts Recognition in the 1805 Jena Philosophy of Spirit Recognition as the Origin and Relation of RightBeing-Recognized, Right and Wrong The Intersubjective Concept of the Will Part Two Recognition in the Philosophy of Right 6 Systematic: Issues in the Philosophy of Right Recognition in the Argument of the Philosophy of Right Hegel's Method of Abstraction The Concept of the Will From 'In-Itself' to 'For-Itself': The Development of the Will 7 Persons, Property, and Contract Abstract Right and Person The Intersubjectivity of Ownership Embodiment, or Taking Possession of Oneself The Intersubjectivity of Contract 8 Crime and Punishment Wrong and Fraud Wrong, Semblance, and the Logic of Essence Transgression as Coercion The Impossible Possibility of Coercion Banquo's Ghost The Mature Theory: Punishment as the Second Coercion Recognition and the Second Coercion The Nullity of Transgression Is Punishment Necessary? 9 Morality The Moral Subject and the Difference The Intersubjectivity of Moral Action Purpose and Intention, Responsibility and Welfare Hegel's Critique of the Moral Point of View The Decline and Fall of Conscience Transition to Ethical Life 1O Ethical Life and the family Ethical Substance, Rights, and Duties Love Transforming the Dialectics of Recognition Marriage as an Ethical Relationship Marriage as a Contract to Transcend Contract Embodied Intersubjectivity and Gender Roles 11 Civil Society, Poverty, and the Corporations Civil Society as the Sphere of Disintegration and Difference Need and Labor, Town and Country Antinomies in Civil Society Poverty: Freedom and Recognition in Peril Hegel's Portrait of Poverty Recognition, Honor, and the Corporation 12 Recognition and the Social Contract Theory of the State Overview of the State as a Unity of Reciprocal Recognitions Patriotism Social Contract Theory Hegel and Rousseau Hegel's Criticism of Fichte 13 The State as a Social Organism Fichte on Social Contract and Organism Hegel on Organism The Encyclopedia Treatment of Mechanism and Organism Mechanism and Chemism in the Science of Logic Organism in the Aesthetics Objective Idealism and Organism in the State Recognition and the Spirit of the Laws The Organic Correlation between Rights and Duties Religious and Cultural Pluralism 14 Sovereignty, International Relations, and War Sovereignty War Issues of Recognition in International Relations The Deficiency of the International 'We' 15 Recent Views of Recognition and the Question of Ethics Kojeve Sartre and Hegel Feminist Critique of Hegel Hegel, Nietzsche, and Deleuze Derrida and the 'Ethics of Deconstruction'Levinas: Reciprocity and Totality in QuestionBibliography Index