Recognition and Social Ontology

Heikki Ikäheimo is Research Fellow at Macquarie University, Sydney. He has published widely on Hegel, recognition and personhood.Arto Laitinen is University Lecturer at University of Jyväskylä, Finland. His publications include Strong Evaluation without Moral Sources (2008), Dimensions of Personhood (2007, edited with Heikki Ikäheimo), Hegel on Action (2010, edited with Constantine Sandis) and a number of articles on mutual recognition.

• 1. Heikki Ikäheimo & Arto LaitinenRecognition and Social Ontology Recognition and the Social Ontology of Personhood2. Robert B. BrandomThe Structure of Desire and Recognition: Self-Consciousness and Self-Constitution3. Robert B. PippinOn Hegel’s Claim that Self-Consciousness is “Desire Itself” (“Begierde überhaupt”) Pirmin Stekeler-WeithoferIntuition, Understanding, and the Human Form of LifeHegel, Marx, and Beyond: Recognition, Spirit and Species Being5. Ludwig SiepMutual Recognition: Hegel and Beyond 6. Heikki IkäheimoHolism and Normative Essentialism in Hegel’s Social Ontology7. Paul ReddingThe Relevance of Hegel’s “Absolute Spirit” to Social Normativity 8. Michael QuanteRecognition as the Social Grammar of Species Being in MarxGroups, Institutions and Recognition9. Margaret GilbertMutual Recognition and Some Related Phenomena10. Italo TestaSocial Space and the Ontology of Recognition11. Arto LaitinenRecognition, Acknowledgement, and Acceptance 12. Titus StahlInstitutional Power, Collective Acceptance, and Recognition 13. Vincent DescombesThe Problem of Collective Identity: The Instituting We and the Instituted WeNotes