Poverty, Inequality and the Critical Theory of Recognition

In: Philosophy and Poverty Ser. v.3

Abstract

Intro -- Contents -- About the Contributors -- Recognition and Poverty: An Introduction -- Introduction -- Honnethian Recognition Theory -- The Injustice of Poverty -- Social-Esteem and Poverty -- Causes of Poverty -- Recognition Theory and Poverty Alleviation -- About the Chapters in This Book -- References -- Part I: Recognition and Poverty in Fichte and Hegel -- Fichte´s Concept of Recognition and Poverty as Material Deprivation -- Introduction -- Fichte´s Foundations of Natural Right (Part I) -- Deduction of the Concept of Right -- Deduction of the Applicability of the Concept of Right -- Systematic Application of the Concept of Right (Doctrine of Right) -- The Absence of Poverty as a Condition of Possibility of Recognition -- The Ability to Recognize (Active) -- Recognizability (Passive) -- The Original Right to Bodily Inviolability -- Two Open Questions -- One-Time or Continuous Securing of the Absence of Poverty? -- Lack of Which Material Goods Constitutes Poverty? -- Conclusion -- References -- Poverty and Recognition in Hegel´s Philosophy of Right -- Hegel´s Immanent Progression -- The Dialectic of Civil Society -- Poverty, Regulation and Associativism -- Reviving Hegel´s Strategy -- Conclusion -- References -- Part II: Recognition and the Injustice of (Global) Poverty -- Civic Poverty and Recognition -- Civic Poverty and Recognition -- How Poverty Must Be Understood -- Capabilities: Poverty and Recognition -- Civic Poverty -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- Misrecognition of the Rural White Working Class -- Introduction -- Perceptions of the Rural Poor -- Identity vs. Redistribution -- Honneth´s Conception of Recognition -- Misrecognition of the Rural White Working -- Fraser vs. Honneth -- Love and the Rural White Working Class -- Justice and the Rural White Working Class -- Achievement and the Rural White Working -- Conclusion.