Table Of ContentThe Plural States of Recognition
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Contents
Notes on the Contributors vi
Acknowledgements ix
Introduction 1
Michel Seymour
1 Aristotle and Hegel on Recognition and Friendship 20
Robert R. Williams
2 Hegel, Taylor and the Phenomenology of Broken Spirits 37
Rajeev Bhargava
3 Multicultural Manners 61
Jacob T. Levy
4 Respect as Recognition: Some Political Implications 78
Anna Elisabetta Galeotti
5 Esteem for Contributions to the Common Good:
The Role of Personifying Attitudes and Instrumental Value 98
Heikki Ikäheimo and Arto Laitinen
6 Models of Democracy and the Politics of Recognition 122
Simon Thompson
7 Respect for Reasonable Cultural Diversity as a Principle
of Political Morality 141
Jocelyn Maclure
8 Difference, ‘Multi’ and Equality 152
Tariq Modood
9 Political Liberalism and the Recognition of Peoples 172
Michel Seymour
10 The Public Assessment of Indigenous Identity 197
Avigail Eisenberg
Conclusion 216
Michel Seymour
Index 225
Notes on the Contributors
Rajeev Bhargava is Senior Fellow and director of the Programme of Social
and Political Theory at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
in Delhi, India. His publications include Individualism in Social Science
(Clarendon Press, 1992), Secularism and its Critics (ed.) (Oxford University
Press, 1998), Multiculturalism, Liberalism and Democracy (ed. with A. Bagchi
and R. Sudarshan) (Oxford University Press, 1999), Transforming India
(ed. with Francine Frankel et al.) (Oxford University Press, 2000), Civil
Society, Public Sphere and Citizenship (ed. with H. Reifeld) (Sage, 2005),
Politics and Ethics of the Indian Constitution (ed.) (Oxford University Press,
2008), Social Justice (ed. with M. Dusche and H. Reifeld) (Sage, 2008) and
Political Theory: An Introduction (ed. with Ashok Acharya) (Pearson, 2008).
Avigail Eisenberg is Associate Professor in the Department of Political
Science and a Faculty Associate in the Indigenous Governance program
at the University of Victoria. She is the author of Reasons of Identity: A
Normative Guide to the Assessment of Identity Claims (Oxford University
Press, 2009) and of Reconstructing Political Pluralism (SUNY Press, 1995).
She also published three collections of research papers: Minorities within
Minorities (ed. with Jeff Spinner-Halev) (Cambridge University Press,
2005), Diversity and Equality (UBC Press, 2006) and Sexual Justice/Cultural
Justice (ed. with Barbara Arneil, Monique Deveaux and Rita Dhamoon)
(Routledge, 2007).
Anna Elisabetta Galeotti is Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy,
Department of Studi Umanistici, University of Piemonte Orientale in
Vercelli, Italy. She is the author of Toleration as Recognition (Cambridge
University Press, 2002). She also wrote ‘Difference, Identity and
Toleration’, in The Oxford Handbook of Political Theory (ed. J. Dryzeck, B.
Honig and A. Phillips) (Oxford University Press, 2006). Her writings have
appeared in Political Theory, Respublica, Ratio Juris and CRISSP.
Heikki Ikäheimo is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at
Macquarie University. He is the author of Self-Consciousness and Inter-
subjectivity. A Study on Hegel’s Encyclopedia Philosophy of Subjective Spirit
(1830) (Publications in Philosophy 67, University of Jyväskylä, 2000). He
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co-edited (with Arto Laitinen) Recognition and Social Ontology (2009), (with
Arto Laitinen) Dimensions of Personhood (Imprint Academic, 2007) and
(with Eerik Lagerspetz and Jussi Kotkavirta) On the Nature of Social and
Institutional Reality (SoPhi Academic Press, 2001).
Arto Laitinen is Professor in the Department of Social Sciences and
Philosophy, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. He is the author of Strong
Evaluation without Moral Source:. With and Against Charles Taylor (Peter
Lang, 2007). In addition to the above-mentioned co-edited volumes with
Heikki Ikäheimo, he co-edited (with Nicholas H. Smith) Perspectives on
the Philosophy of Charles Taylor (Societas Philosophica Fennica, 2002). He
has published articles in journals such as Critical Review of International
Social and Political Philosophy and Inquiry.
Jacob T. Levy is Tomlinson Professor of Political Theory in the
Department of Political Science at McGill University and a member of
the McGill Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism. He is the author
of The Multiculturalism of Fear (Oxford University Press, 2000). He has
also published in Political Theory, Critical Review of International Social and
Political Philosophy, American Political Science Review and Social Philosophy
and Policy.
Jocelyn Maclure is Professor in the Faculté de philosophie, Université
Laval, Québec, Canada. He is the author of Quebec Identity: The Challenge
of Pluralism (preface by Charles Taylor) (McGill-Queen’s University Press,
2003) and co-edited (with Alain G. Gagnon) Repères en mutation (Québec
Amérique, 2001). He has also published papers in Philosophy & Social
Criticism and the Canadian Journal of Political Science.
Tariq Modood is Director of the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and
Citizenship, Professor of Sociology, Politics and Public Policy, Department
of Sociology, University of Bristol. His most recent publications include
Multiculturalism: A Civic Idea (Polity Press, 2007) and Multicultural Politics:
Racism, Ethnicity and Muslims in Britain (University of Minnesota Press and
Edinburgh University Press, 2005). He co-edited (with G. G. Raymond)
The Construction of Minority Identities in France and Britain (Palgrave
Macmillan, 2007), (with A. Triandafyllidou and R. Zapata-Barrero) Multi-
culturalism, Muslims and Citizenship: A European Approach (Routledge,
2006) and (with S. May and J. Squires) Ethnicity, Nationalism and Minority
Rights, Cambridge University Press, 2004.
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Michel Seymour is full Professor in the Department of Philosophy at
Université de Montréal. He is the author of De la tolérance à la reconnais-
sance. Une théorie libérale des droits collectifs (Boréal, 2008), L’institution du
langage (Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2005), Le pari de la démesure.
L’intransigeance canadienne face au Québec (L’Hexagone, 2001), La nation
en question (L’Hexagone, 1999) and Pensée, langage et communauté (Vrin/
Bellarmin, 1994). He has edited The Fate of the Nation-state (McGill-
Queen’s University Press, 2004), co-edited (with Jocelyne Couture and
Kai Nielsen) Rethinking Nationalism in the Supplementary Volumes of the
Canadian Journal of Philosophy (1998) and (with Matthias Fritsch) Reason
and Emancipation: Essays in the Philosophy of Kai Nielsen (Humanities
Books, Prometheus, 2007).
Simon Thompson is Senior Lecturer in Politics, and Fellow of the Centre
for Psycho-social Studies at the University of the West of England,
Bristol. He is author of The Political Theory of Recognition (Polity, 2006),
and co-editor (with Simon Clarke and Paul Hoggett) of Emotions, Politics
and Society (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006) and (with Matthew Festenstein)
of Richard Rorty: Critical Dialogues (Polity, 2001). His articles have been
published in Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy,
Constellations and Contemporary Political Theory.
Robert R. Williams is Affiliate Professor in the Department of Germanic
Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago. He is author of Hegel’s Ethics of
Recognition (University of California Press, 1997), Recognition: Fichte and
Hegel on the Other (SUNY Press, 1992) and Schleiermacher the Theologian:
The Construction of the Doctrine of God (Fortress Press, 1978). He is editor
of Beyond Liberalism and Communitarianism: Studies in Hegel’s Philosophy
of Right (SUNY Press, 2001). He is translator and editor of Hegel’s Lectures
on the Philosophy of Spirit 1827/8 (Oxford University Press, 2007) and L.
A. Dorner: The Immutability of God (1994).
Acknowledgements
The collection of chapters presented in this volume partly stems from
the international workshop on ‘The Plural States of Recognition’ which
took place in Montreal in September 2007. The event was sponsored by
the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC),
the Center of Ethics at University of Montreal, the Research Group on
Plurinational States (GRSP) and the Group of Research on Ethnicity and
Democratic Governance (EDG). I also wish to thank Martin Blanchard
for his faithful assistance before, during and after the conference.
I also profited from an SSHRC research grant during this period. In
addition, the EDG research group provided funding for the translation of
my chapter. I thank Jessica Moore for her nice translation of my chapter.
Finally, Jean-Philippe Royer helped me to prepare the typescript. I thank
him for that.
I wish to thank Polity Press for allowing Tariq Modood to use material
from Chapters 3 and 4 of his book Multiculturalism: A Civic Idea (2007),
and I am also grateful to Oxford University Press for allowing Avigail
Eisenberg to use material from Chapter 6 of her book Reasons of Identity:
A Normative Guide to the Assessment of Identity Claims (2009).
Michel Seymour
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