Heikki Ikäheimo is senior lecturer in philosophy at UNSW Sydney.Kristina Lepold is junior professor of social philosophy and critical theory at Humboldt University Berlin.Titus Stahl is assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Groningen.

Introduction, by Heikki Ikäheimo, Kristina Lepold, and Titus Stahl1. Recognition Between Power and Normativity: A Hegelian Critique of Judith Butler, by Axel Honneth2. Recognition and the Social Bond: A Response to Axel Honneth, by Judith Butler3. Intelligibility and Authority in Recognition: A Reply, by Axel Honneth4. Recognition and Mediation: A Second Reply to Axel Honneth, by Judith Butler5. Historicizing Recognition: From Ontology to Teleology, by Lois McNay6. Recognizing Ambivalence: Honneth, Butler, and Philosophical Anthropology, by Amy Allen7. How Should We Understand the Ambivalence of Recognition? Revisiting the Link Between Recognition and Subjection in the Works of Althusser and Butler, by Kristina Lepold 8. Recognition, Constitutive Domination, and Emancipation, by Titus Stahl9. Return to Reification: An Attempt at Systematization, by Heikki Ikäheimo10. Negativity in Recognition: Post-Freudian Legacies in Contemporary Critical Theory, by Jean-Philippe Deranty11. Beyond Needs: Recognition, Conflict, and the Limits of Institutionalization, by Robin Celikates12. Freedom, Equality, and Struggles of Recognition: Tully, Rancière, and the Agonistic Re-Orientation, by David OwenContributorsIndex

Recognition and Ambivalence brings together leading scholars in social and political philosophy to develop new perspectives on recognition and its role in social life. It begins with a debate between Honneth and Butler, the first sustained engagement between these two major thinkers on this subject. Contributions from both proponents and critics of theories of recognition further reflect upon and clarify the problems and challenges involved in theorizing the concept and its normative desirability. Together, they explore different routes toward a critical theory of recognition, departing from wholly positive or negative views to ask whether it is an essentially ambivalent phenomenon. Featuring original, systematic work in the philosophy of recognition, this book also provides a useful orientation to the key debates on this important topic.