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Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 2022

Timothy L. Brownlee
Affiliation:
Xavier University, Ohio
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This chapter introduces the idea of a distinctively moral form of recognition by considering J. M. Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello, a work of literature that exemplifies the recognitive tensions in which Hegel is interested, showing how moral disagreement can undermine the experience of the integrity of one’s own selfhood. I then turn to presenting a general account of the issue of recognition in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, by situating the role that the idea of the self plays in addressing that issue. I show that recognition addresses a challenge about self-knowledge, so that an adequate conception of what the self is is necessary to secure relations of recognition. After clarifying the interpretive method that I follow in the book by contrasting with my own approach to extant interpretations, I conclude with a chapter-by-chapter outline of the rest of the monograph.

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Print publication year: 2022

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  • Introduction
  • Timothy L. Brownlee, Xavier University, Ohio
  • Book: Recognition and the Self in Hegel's <I>Phenomenology of Spirit</I>
  • Online publication: 01 December 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009099141.002
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  • Introduction
  • Timothy L. Brownlee, Xavier University, Ohio
  • Book: Recognition and the Self in Hegel's <I>Phenomenology of Spirit</I>
  • Online publication: 01 December 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009099141.002
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  • Introduction
  • Timothy L. Brownlee, Xavier University, Ohio
  • Book: Recognition and the Self in Hegel's <I>Phenomenology of Spirit</I>
  • Online publication: 01 December 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009099141.002
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