WORKSHOP ON PATHOLOGIES OF RECOGNITION
In conjunction with the Collegium Lecture 2014 by Axel Honneth
May 23-24 2014 Helsinki
Fabianinkatu 24, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Study
Organized by
The research project "Pathologies of recognition" (The Academy of Finland, University of Jyväskylä). https://www.jyu.fi/ytk/laitokset/yfi/en/research/clusters/pathologies-of-recognition
Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Study, (University of Helsinki) http://www.helsinki.fi/collegium/english/index.htm
The School of Social Sciences and Humanities (University of Tampere) http://www.uta.fi/yky/en/index.html
According to Axel Honneth and other representatives of the ‘recognition-theoretical’ tradition of thought, attitudes and relations of intersubjective recognition (Anerkennung) are of fundamental constitutive significance for distinctively human psychological and social structures. They are also considered to be of fundamental significance for the good functioning of these structures, for the well-being of human persons, and for the moral or ethical quality of their relationships, characters, motives and actions. A great number of philosophers and psychologists working in this tradition agree that humans have an inbuilt need for recognition. This widely agreed upon thought has however not been complemented or contrasted with a systematic account of reasons why recognition can be lacking. Although humans may need intersubjective recognition to exist and flourish as human persons individually and collectively, there are also universally human tendencies to repress or deny recognition, tendencies that are due to the specific kinds of vulnerabilities that recognition-dependence introduces. The seminar, organized in the context of prof. Axel Honneth’s Collegium Lecture, will reflect on both the need for recognition and its ’pathologies’ or dark sides.
more info: arto.laitinen at uta.fi
FRI 23 MAY
10.15 – 10.45 Arto Laitinen (Tampere): Mutual recognition, ideology, and higher-order disorders
10.45 – 11.15 Heikki Ikäheimo (UNSW, Sydney): The cost of recognition
11.15 – 12.00 Cillian McBride (QUB, Belfast): Sensitivity to social recognition and vulnerability to domination
LUNCH
13.00-13.30 Nora Hämäläinen (Helsinki): Emotional capitalism and the epistemology of suspicion
13.30-14.00 Federica Gregoratto (Frankfurt): Pathologies of love: Honneth, Illouz and J. Benjamin
- - Brief brake - -
14.30-15.00 Risto Kunelius (Tampere): TBA (on Dewey, public and its problems)
15.00-15.30 Risto Saarinen (Helsinki): Recognition in Religion: A Pre-Hegelian Diagnosis
[16.00 A separate event: The annual collegium lecture; by Professor Axel Honneth (Frankfurt & Columbia), the main building]
SAT 24 MAY
Presentations by members of the project ”Pathologies of Recognition”
10.00-10.30 Arvi Särkelä (Frankfurt): Hegel on Scepticism, Stoicism, and Unhappy Consciousness as ideologies justifying domination
10.35 – 11.05 Sari Roman-Lagerspetz (Jyväskylä). Hegel on Women as instruments in the dialectics of the Nation
11.10 - 11.40 Hans Arentshorst (Jyväskylä): Freedom in contemporary capitalism: on Neo-Liberalism and Axel Honneth’s theory of recognition
11.45 - 12.20 Onni Hirvonen (Jyväskylä): Collective pathologies of recognition
12.25 -12.55 Jussi Kotkavirta (Jyväskylä): On 'shame' as a pathology of recognition
12.55-13.00 The End