Bound By Recognition

This is a remarkably sophisticated learned and elegant piece of work andan important contribution to debates about political identity the role andshape of recog... » 

This is a remarkably sophisticated learned and elegant piece of work andan important contribution to debates about political identity the role andshape of recognition and citizenship. The arguments are ingenious andmasterfully pursued.Dana Villa author of Socratic CitizenshipBoundby Recognition is an important and original contribution to the literature onstruggles over recognition. Markells thesis is that these struggles should notbe oriented towards the definitive mutual recognition of the contendingpartners for this ideal is unobtainable and dangerous in practice. Ratherthey should be seen as human all too human intersubjective activities ofimperfect acknowledgement in conditions of finitude plurality and thecontingency of identities. This Arendtian thesis is grounded in brilliant andprovocative interpretations of Sophocles Aristotle Hegel Marx Taylor andKymlicka.James Tully University of Toronto author of StrangeMultiplicity «