Università Roma Tre

Identity and recognition

The subject of the course is one of the central concepts of the philosophical tradition: the notion of recognition. At the center of the analysis will be the reconstruction of the metamorphoses that have invested this crucial theme in the course of modernity: from the slave-master dialectic introduced by Hegel in section IV of the "Phenomenology of the spirit" to the most recent theorizations in a hermeneutic and social-philosophical key to work by Paul Ricoeur, Nancy Fraser and Axel Honneth. The course also intends to highlight the crucial importance that the problem of transcultural recognition has come to assume in our present.

A. Honneth, Recognition, Cambridge University Press 2020.
N. Fraser-A. Honneth, Redistribution or Recognition?, Verso 2004.
P. Ricoeur, The Course of Recognition, Harvard University Press 2007.

Recommended readings:

F. Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit, University of Notre Dame Press 2019.
A. Kojève, Introductione to the Reading of Hegel, Cornell University Press.