Open AccessPathologies of Recognition: An Introduction
Author(s) -
Arto Laitinen,
Arvi Särkelä,
Heikki Ikäheimo
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
studies in social and political thought/studies in social and political thought
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2398-3884
pISSN - 1467-2219
DOI - 10.20919/sspt.25.2015.44
Subject(s) - section (typography) , trace (psycholinguistics) , hegelianism , cognitive science , epistemology , psychology , computer science , philosophy , linguistics , operating system
This paper is an introduction to the special issue on Pathologies of Recognition. The first subsection briefly introduces the notion of recognition and trace its development from Fichte and Hegel to Honneth and his critics, and the second subsection turns to the concept of a social pathology. The third section provides a brief look at the individual papers.