Encountering the Other: Philosophical Perspectives on Recognition
Date: Saturday, 31st March 2012
Time: 9am-6pm
Venue: Newman House, St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, Ireland
Speakers:
Lois McNay (Oxford University)
Alice Le Goff (Université Paris V Descartes)
Katherine Morris (Oxford University)
Arto Laitinen (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)
Robin Celikates (University of Amsterdam)
Respondents: To be Confirmed
Workshop Description:
The workshop contrasts recognitive perspectives on social interaction, particularly from the German critical theory tradition, with a range of alternative philosophical perspectives, particularly drawn from contemporary French philosophy and phenomenology, which explore alternative understandings and modalities through which social interaction is experienced.
The participants in the workshop seek to explore critical perspectives on the concept of recognition understood as the basis of normative interaction and the condition of social freedom. Papers will focus on issues such as recognition and embodiment, recognition and the politics of needs, reification, experiences of misrecognition and the ways in which recognition might be imbued with power, and the implications of a theory of recognition for collective action. The papers will draw on the work of philosophers such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Axel Honneth, Michel Foucault, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and others.
Program
9.45 am: Welcome
10.00-11.00: Lois McNay (Oxford University)
‘The Politics of Suffering and Recognition: Foucault contra Honneth’
11.00-11.30: Coffee
11.30-12.30: Alice Le Goff (Université Paris V Descartes)
‘Recognition, Freedom and Collective Action in Sartre’
12.30-13.30: Katherine Morris (Oxford University)
‘Merleau-Ponty and Bodily Reciprocity: Understanding Other Others’
13.30-15.00 Lunch
15.00-16.00 Arto Laitinen (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)
‘Ricoeur on Recognition: Fallible Man, Oneself as Another and Course of Recognition’
16.00-17.00 Robin Celikates (University of Amsterdam)
‘Recognition and the Politics of Needs’
All welcome! If you would like to attend this event please email Danielle Petherbridge (danielle.petherbridge@ucd.ie) or Luna Dolezal (luna.dolezal@ucd.ie).
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