Between Cultures Tensions in the Struggle for Recognition
- List Price: $20.00
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
- Publish date: 04/01/2000
Description:
Whenever an individual asks to be recognized, he asks for confirmation of what he believes himself to be. But he also asks for an establishing act which brings about what he will be once he has been recognized. Recognition is thus marked by a tension between two incompatible demands.
Expand description
Between Cultures is a philosophical attempt to discuss issues related to multiculturalism in the light of this struggle for recognition. Moving effortlessly across various disciplines, it refers to the work of Adorno, Derrida, Freud, Hegel, Heidegger, Rawls, Walzer and Wittgenstein to describe a historical and critical politics of recognition.
Product notice
Returnable at the third party seller's discretion and may come without consumable supplements like access codes, CD's, or workbooks.
Please Wait