Understanding Recognition

Piotr Kulas is University Professor at the Faculty of 'Artes Liberales' at the University of Warsaw, Poland. He is the author and editor of numerous books and articles on elites and the Polish intelligentsia. He is the Head of Elitylab UW.Andrzej Waśkiewicz is Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Warsaw, Poland, and the author of Strangers by Choice: An Asocial Philosophy of Life and The Idea of Political Representation and Its Paradoxes.Stanisław Krawczyk is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Wrocław, Poland. His recent work is primarily in higher education studies.

• Recognition: An Insight into Past and Present Societies1. Against a Spiritual Sanatorium: Hegel’s Asymmetrical Conception of Recognition2. Struggle and Shame: A Contribution to the Phenomenology of Recognition3. The Bourgeoisie as Humanity or Inter-class4. Micro-sociology of Social Recognition5. Tactical Boundary-Setting in the Struggle for Recognition6. Dignified Inequality: Recognition of Music Taste and Class Boundaries7. Two Recognition Gaps: The Problem of the Distribution of Respect in Polish Society8. Ancient Greek Aristocracy As a Historical Problem9. A Gentleman’s Leisure, or the Quest for Recognition: Aspiring to Aristocratic Ranks10. Recognition and Secularisation: Memorialising Mass Exterminations in Western and Eastern Europe11. The Problem of Race and Recognition in the Formation of Latin American Identity12. Popular Authors in Search of Recognition: On the Polish Field of Science Fiction in the 1980s and 1990s

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