Recognition,Power,and Agency

Drucilla Cornell , Moral Images of Freedom: A Future for Critical Theory ( Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008), 105-35.

Iris Marion Young , Justice and the Politics of Difference (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990), 6; Young, Inclusion and Democracy (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2000), 10.

Seyla Benhabib , Critique, Norm, and Utopia: A Study of the Foundations of Critical Theory (New York: Columbia University Press, 1986), 19. See additionally Benhabib's presidential address, "Another Universalism: On the Unity and Diversity of Human Rights," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Association 81, no. 2 (2007): 7-32.

A selection of works aiming to extend the boundaries of Critical Theory include Enrique Dussel, The Underside of Modernity: Apel, Ricoeur, Rorty, Taylor, and the Philosophy of Liberation (Atlantic Highlands: Humanities Press, 1996); Judith Butler, The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997); Martin Matŭstík, Specters of Liberation: Great Refusals in the New World Order (Albany: SUNY Press, 1998); Michael Warner, The Trouble with Normal: Sex, Politics, and the Ethics of Queer Life (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999); Jacqueline Martinez, Phenomenology of Chicana Experience and Identity: Communication and Transformation in Praxis (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000); Charles W. Mills, From Class to Race: Essays in White Marxism and Black Radicalism (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003); Linda Martín Alcoff, Visible Identities: Race, Gender, and the Self (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2005).

Gail Presbey describes the application of Honneth's notion of recognition to contemporary South African politics. See Presbey , "The Struggle for Recognition in the Philosophy of Axel Honneth, Applied to the Current South African Situation and Its Call for an `African Renaissance,'" Philosophy and Social Criticism 29, no. 5 (2003): 537-61.

Honneth's classic work on the concept of recognition is The Struggle for Recognition: The Moral Grammar of Social Conflicts, trans. Joel Anderson (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996). This text was originally published in German as Kampf um Anerkennung. Zur moralischen Grammatik sozialer Konflikte (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1992). See also "Invisibility: On the Epistemology of `Recognition,'" Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 75, no. 1 (2001): 111-26; Nancy Fraser and Axel Honneth, Redistribution or Recognition? A Political-Philosophical Exchange (London: Verso, 2003). For Honneth's work on power, see The Critique of Power: Reflective Stages in a Critical Social Theory, trans. Kenneth Bayes (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1991). Recently, Honneth has been thinking about the notion of reification (Verdinglichung) as integral to understanding the dialectic of recognition and power. Consult Honneth, Verdinglichung. Eine anerkennungstheoretische Studie (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 2005); Honneth, Reification: A New Look at an Old Idea (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2008), with rejoinders by Judith Butler, Raymond Geuss, and Jonathan Lear.

Nikolas Kompridis , "From Reason to Self-Realisation? Axel Honneth and the `Ethical Turn' in Critical Theory," Critical Horizons 5, no. 1 ( 2004): 323-60.

Carole Pateman and Charles Mills , Contract and Domination (Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2007).

Barry Chevannes , Rastafari: Roots and Ideology (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1994); Nathaniel Murrell , William Spencer , and Adrian McFarlane , eds., Chanting Down Babylon: The Rastafari Reader (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998); Chevannes , "Rastafari and the Critical Tradition," in Rastafari: A Universal Philosophy in the Third Millennium, ed. Werner Zips (Kingston: Ian Randle, 2006), 282-97.

Frantz Fanon , The Wretched of the Earth, foreword by Homi Bhabha, preface by Jean-Paul Sartre, trans. Richard Philcox (New York: Grove Press, 2004), 239.