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20th Colloquium 2014 - Evian, 13-19 juillet 2014

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Colloquium 2004: Sociality and Recognition

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The 2004 French-German Philosophy colloquium will be devoted to the question of sociality. What is sociality? What forces bind a society together wherever social structures develop? Is sociality anything more than intersubjectivity, and if so, in what way? How should sociality be explained?

The concept of ‚recognition' has recently become popular as a basic concept for reconstructing social contexts. ‚Recognition' is taken to clarify the mechanism by which ‚sociality' is created, i.e. social bonds, social fields and socialized subjects. In other words, the concept of recognition is used to explain the performative production of social cohesion by which modern subjects are constantly involved in the processes of individualizing socialization. Use of the notion of mutual recognition to refer to a genetic principle of sociality goes back to the motif of the ‚struggle for recognition' in Hegel's Jena writings. There, on the basis of analyses by Fichte, Hegel attempts to explain the dialectic of the individual (the subject) and the general (society) and hence to sort out the aporias of modern contractual theories of the social (Locke, Hobbes, Rousseau). Not only the modern subject, but also the ethical progress of society is constituted in the struggle for and the experience of receiving the recognition of others.

In the context of the Frankfurt School, Juergen Habermas and Axel Honneth have expanded on these issues, bringing them together with the insights of American social pragmatism (George H. Mead). The issue of recognition has also achieved prominence by way of the French reception of Hegel by Alexandre Kojève, albeit with a different, critical element. For Kojève, recognition is a matter of the existential self-alienation of an individual who is ‚sub-jected' to his or her own desire for recognition. Many French thinkers, Hyppolite, Derrida, Lévinas, Ricoeur and Nancy among them, have taken up this line of thought, but above all Lacan and Althusser. For the latter, the notion of recognition is precisely not the genetic principle of sociality, but rather an ideological reflex of dominant social structures; hence in every ‚recognition' (reconnaissance) there is also a ‚misrecognition' (méconnaissance). In the American context, on the other hand, recognition plays a central role in questions of justice, freedom and equality. In the framework of his critique of liberal universalism, Charles Taylor invokes the concept of a ‚politics of recognition' of cultural difference. From a feminist perspective, Seyla Benhabib has criticized the implicit androcentrism of a universalizing model of ‚recognizing' and ‚recognized' subjects, arguing instead for a radicalized recognition of the genuine differences of others. Last but not least, there is a neo-Hegelian tendency in some post-analytic philosophy in which the concept of recognition plays a central role (Brandom, McDowell).

The discourses of recognition open up an intensive and complex set of perspectives on the phenomenon of sociality. For this reason, the colloquium will focus on the question of the constitution of sociality by taking up these discourses and asking to what extent sociality can be conceived as constituted in and by structures of recognition. We hope to exploit the potential of the concept of recognition and to establish its limits with regard to understanding sociality. What does the concept of recognition contribute to the reconstruction of social contexts? Is ‚recognition' to be seen as a crucial concept here and what other concepts might be equally important? Other potential concepts to be considered in this context might be, for instance, MacIntyre's concept of community, Fraser's concept of redistribution, Nietzsche's and Foucault's notion of power, or Bourdieu's theory of the constitutive misrecognition of the social order. We explicitly welcome submissions that suggest alternatives to and raise questions regarding the usefulness of the concept of recognition as the foundation for explaining sociality. We invite submissions that focus on the question of sociality by probing into the concept of recognition and exploring the multifaceted controversies surrounding it.


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Lundi, 19 juillet 2004

Anerkennung und Sozialität - systematisch-historische Eingrenzungen
Jo-Jo Koo (Montreal): Sociality as a Dimension of Recognition
Eran Dorfman
(Paris): Reconnaître ou méconnaître? Approches phénoménologique et psychanalytique de la constitution d'autrui
Robin Celikates (Erfurt/Jena): Nicht versöhnt - Wo bleibt der Kampf im "Kampf um Anerkennung"?

David Schweikard (Münster): Ich, das Wir, und Wir, das Ich ist. - Hegels Theorie der konstitutiven Anerken-nung als Alternative zum intentionalistischen Paradigma
Joseph Schear (Chicago): Recognition: A Hegelian Clue for Transcendental Philosophy
Katrin Pahl (Stanford): The Promise of Vulnerability: Mutual Recognition in Hegel


Mardi, 20 juillet 2004

Anerkennung, politische Gemeinschaft und ästhetische Praxis
James Ingram (New York): Politics against Society: Recognition in Arendt and Rancière
Jens Kertscher
(Darmstadt): Dialektik und Differenz - Jacques Rancières Politik der Anerkennung
Jérôme Lèbre (Paris): Reconnaissance et comparution : à propos de la communauté chez Jean-Luc Nancy

Kevin Newmark (Boston): Shocked beyond Recognition: Baudelaire and the Poetry of Sociality
Esa Kirkkopelto (Helsinki/Strasbourg): Suffrage d'Athéna - tragédie, démocratie, déconstruction
Gilles Ribault (Paris): Enjeux freudiens de la reconnaissance


Mercredi, 21 juillet 2004

Anerkennung - neue Perspektiven
Christophe Laudou (Madrid): La demande de reconnaissance, de Hegel à Lacan
Georg W. Bertram (Hildesheim): Anerkennung, Welterschließung und symbolische Praxis
Carol C. Gould
(New York): Relationships, Caring, and the Idea of Recognition

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Jeudi, 22 juillet 2004

Anerkennung, Selbstbewusstsein und Selbstheit
Susanna Lindberg (Helsinki): Heidegger et l'être-avec
Elizabeth Butterfield (Atlanta): Sociality and Recognition as Enabling Conditions for Autonomy
Andreas Cremonini (Basel): Anerkennung. Vom Medium der Freiheit

Olivier Voirol (Paris): Socialité médiatisée et reconnaissance institutionnalisée
Johannes Angermüller (Magdeburg): Die diskursive Konstitution des Sozialen - ein Lacan'scher Zugang
Inara Luiza Marim (Sao Paolo): Théorie de la reconnaissance et psychanalyse en débat


Vendredi, 23 juillet 2004

Die Reichweite von Anerkennung
Diane Perpich (Clemson): Recognizing Difference Non-Essentially
Susanne Schmetkamp (Tübingen): Normative Reichweite und Grenzen der Anerkennung im Zeitalter der Globalisierung
Simone Zurbuchen (Fribourg): Ist die Anerkennung kultureller Differenz ein Gebot der Gerechtigkeit?

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Organisation: Georg W. Bertram (Berlin), Robin Celikates (Amsterdam), David Lauer (Berlin). In cooperation with: Alessandro Bertinetto (Udine), Karen Feldman (Berkeley), Jo-Jo Koo (Dickinson), Christophe Laudou (Madrid), Claire Pagès (Paris), Diane Perpich (Clemson), Hans Bernhard Schmid (Wien), Contact: evian@philosophie.fu-berlin.de