Poverty, Inequality and the Critical Theory of Recognition

Gottfried Schweiger is a Senior Scientist at the Centre for Ethics and Poverty Research, University of Salzburg. He works in social and political philosophy. Previous publications include (co-authored with Gunter Graf) “A Philosophical Examination of Social Justice and Child Poverty” (Palgrave Macmillan 2015) and (co-edited with Johannes Drerup, Gunter Graf and Christoph Schickhardt) “Justice, Education and the Politics of Childhood” (Springer 2016).

• Chapter 1. Recognition and Poverty: An Introduction (Gottfried Schweiger).- Part I: Recognition and Poverty in Fichte and Hegel.- Chapter 2. Fichte’s Concept of Recognition and Poverty as Material Deprivation (Esther Neuhann).- Chapter 3. Poverty and Recognition in Hegel’s Philosophy of Right (Bernardo Ferro).- Part II: Recognition and the Injustice of (Global) Poverty.- Chapter 4. Civic Poverty and Recognition (Gustavo Pereira).- Chapter 5. Misrecognition of the Rural White Working Class (Dylan Rohr).- Chapter 6. Recognition, Poverty and Self-Respect (Jonathan Seglow).- Chapter 7. Disappointed Expectations: On Misrecognition and Poverty (Gottfried Schweiger).- Chapter 8. Suffering Poverty: Towards a Global Recognitive Justice (Renante Pilapil).- Chapter 9. Recognition of the Poor on the International and Global Levels: On Dilemmas of Axel Honneth’s Theory (Marek Hrubec).- Chapter 10. The Harms of Global Poverty as Misrecognition: Social Suffering, Invisibility, Alienation (Monica Mookherjee).- Part III: Recognition and Poverty Alleviation Politics.- Chapter 11. When Microcredit Doesn’t Empower Poor Women: Recognition Theory’s Contribution to the Debate over Adaptive Preferences (David Ingram).- Chapter 12. Relational Poverty, Domination and Social Esteem: Recognizing the Poor’s Agency via a Deliberative Approach to Anti-Poverty Policies (Pedro Lippmann and Katarina Fargosa).- Chapter 13.  Universal Basic Income as a Recognition-Based Policy against Poverty (Gustavo Cunha).- Chapter 14. Crime and Punishment of the Poor from Recognition Theory Perspective (Javier Cigüela Sola).