Overview
- First Book on Recognition and Poverty
- Brings Together a Leading International Scholars on the much Debated Issue of Recognition as a Key Concept in Critical Theory
- Provides Philosophical Insights into the Injustice of Poverty
- Shows how Recognition Theory can be a Valuable Tool to Analyze and Criticize Poverty in Both the Developing and the Developed Worlds
- Examines the Link Between Recognition, Poverty and Criminal Responsibility and How the Criminalization of Certain Practices Affects the Poor
Part of the book series: Philosophy and Poverty (PPOV, volume 3)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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RecognitionRecognition and PovertyPoverty in Fichte Fichtes and Hegel
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RecognitionRecognition and PovertyPoverty in Fichte Fichtes and Hegel
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RecognitionRecognition and the Injustice of (Global) PovertyPoverty
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RecognitionRecognition and PovertyPoverty Alleviation Politics
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Keywords
- Poverty and Inequality
- Anti-poverty policies
- Development aid
- Hegel’s Philosophy of Right
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte
- Poverty as Material Deprivation
- White Working Class
- Recognition Theory and Global Justice
- Global Poverty
- Poor on Global Levels
- Poor on International Levels
- Social Suffering
- Poverty Alleviation Politics
- Does Micro-Finance Empower Women
- Poverty alleviation policies
- Recognition-based policy against poverty
- Universal Basic Income
- Poverty and Criminal Law
About this book
This book brings together philosophical approaches to explore the relation of recognition and poverty. This volume examines how critical theories of recognition can be utilized to enhance our understanding, evaluation and critique of poverty and social inequalities. Furthermore, chapters in this book explore anti-poverty policies, development aid and duties towards the (global) poor. This book includes critical examinations of reflections on poverty and related issues in the work of past and present philosophers of recognition. This book hopes to contribute to the ongoing and expanding debate on recognition in ethics, political and social philosophy by focusing on poverty, which is one highly important social and global challenge.
“If one believed that the theme of “recognition” had been theoretically exhausted over the last couple of years, this book sets the record straight. The central point of all the studies collected here is that poverty is best understood in its socialcauses, psychic consequences and moral injustice when studied within the framework of recognition theory. Regardless of how recognition is defined in detail, poverty is best captured as the absence of all material and cultural conditions for being recognized as a human being. Whoever is interested in the many facets of poverty is well advised to consult this path-breaking book.” Axel Honneth, Columbia University.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Gottfried Schweiger is a Senior Scientist at the Centre for Ethics and Poverty Research, University of Salzburg. He works in social and political philosophy. Previous publications include (co-authored with Gunter Graf) “A Philosophical Examination of Social Justice and Child Poverty” (Palgrave Macmillan 2015) and (co-edited with Johannes Drerup, Gunter Graf and Christoph Schickhardt) “Justice, Education and the Politics of Childhood” (Springer 2016).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Poverty, Inequality and the Critical Theory of Recognition
Editors: Gottfried Schweiger
Series Title: Philosophy and Poverty
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45795-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-45794-5Published: 21 July 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-45797-6Published: 22 July 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-45795-2Published: 20 July 2020
Series ISSN: 2662-4389
Series E-ISSN: 2662-4397
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 321
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Political Philosophy, Political Theory, Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights, Ethics