The Experience of Injustice: A Theory of Recognition - Couverture rigide

Renault, Emmanuel

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0231177062 ISBN 13 : 9780231177061

Editeur : Columbia University Press, 2019

Synopsis

In The Experience of Injustice, the French philosopher Emmanuel Renault opens an important new chapter in critical theory. He brings together political theory, critical social science, and a keen sense of the power of popular movements to offer a forceful vision of social justice. Questioning normative political philosophy's conception of justice, Renault gives an account of injustice as the denial of recognition, placing the experience of social suffering at the heart of contemporary critical theory.

Inspired by Axel Honneth, Renault argues that a radicalized version of Honneth's ethics of recognition can provide a systematic alternative to the liberal-democratic projects of such thinkers as Rawls and Habermas. Renault reformulates Honneth's theory as a framework founded on experiences of injustice. He develops a complex, psychoanalytically rich account of suffering, disaffiliation, and identity loss to explain these experiences as denials of recognition, linking everyday injustice to a robust defense of the politicization of identity in social struggles. Engaging contemporary French and German critical theory alongside interdisciplinary tools from sociology, psychoanalysis, socialist political theory, social-movement theory, and philosophy, Renault articulates the importance of a theory of recognition for the resurgence of social critique.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Emmanuel Renault (PhD, Philosophy, Burgundy) is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris X (Nanterre). He is the author of L'Expérience de l'Injustice: Reconnaissance et Clinique de l'Injustice (La Découverte, 2004, English translation under contract at Columbia), Souffrance Sociales: Sociologie, Psychologie et Politique (La Découverte, 2008), and (with Gerard Dumenil and Michael Lowy) Lire Marx (PUF, 2014), among other titles.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Columbia University Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0231177062
• ISBN 13: 9780231177061
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 304
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