Between Cultures : Tension in the Struggle for Recognition

by DUTTMANN, ALEXANDER GARCIAWOODGATE, KENNETH B.

• ISBN13: 9781859847558
• ISBN10: 1859847552
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-04-17
• Publisher: Verso

Summary

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 that brings about what he will be once he has been recognized. Recognition is thus marked by a tension between two incompatible demands. 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.

Table of Contents

Translator's note	ix
Diagnosis and thought	1	(201)
Between cultures
Cultural trash	3	(43)
The culture of quotation
What does recognition mean?	46	(19)
Between cultures
Hyphens	65	(38)
The culture of polemic
We're queer, we're here, so get fuckin' used to it	103	(18)
Between cultures
Aids	121	(16)
The culture of criticism
Recognition as presupposition and result	137	(30)
Between cultures
Plan of life: self-extinguishment	167	(14)
The culture of interpretation
Struggling for recognition	181	(21)
Irony and rescue	202	(34)
Appendix: selfhood
Notes on autonomy and recognition	214	(5)
Not always being good
Appendix to the English translation	219	(17)
About this book	236	(1)
Bibliography	237