Apolitics of Acknowledgement: (In)Action in Patchen Markell's Bound by Recognition Public Deposited
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Malloy, Tamar
- Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Political Science
- Abstract
- In Bound by Recognition Patchen Markell relocates interactions that confer respect, moving from a state-centered politics of recognition to a politics of acknowledgement based primarily on individuals' acceptance of their own human finitude. I argue that, while engaging and promising, Markell's theory lacks a politics and, therefore, the potential to create far-reaching social change. In support of this claim I examine obstacles to realizing a politics of acknowledgement, Markell's anachronistic focus on Jewish emancipation in Prussia, and the unique advantages of an antagonistic, state-based politics of recognition, with particular attention to gay rights movements in the United States. I conclude that Markell's warnings about the danger of recognition are exaggerated, and that while a politics of acknowledgement might usefully inform political practice it cannot provide psychic or material benefits on par with those that might be gained through a politics of recognition.
- Date of publication
- May 2012
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- Spinner-Halev, Jeff
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- Master of Arts
- Degree granting institution
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Graduation year
- 2012
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