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This article deals with the specificities of the conceptions of recognition by John Dewey and George Herbert Mead, as well as with their legacy in the founders of the Chicago school of sociology (William Thomas, Robert Park and Ernest Burgess), in Erwin Goffman, Pierre Bourdieu and Axel Honneth. The first and introductory part of the article shows that Dewey’s and Mead’s approaches to recognition are part of a Hegelian deposit in their thinking. The second part focuses on the naturalist, externalist, practice-based and processual dimensions of their conception of recognition. The third part analyzes the implications of their dispositional theory of action and of their impulse-habit psychology. The concluding part contrasts their approaches to recognition with Robert Brandom’s neopragmatist approach.
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Renault, E. (2020). On the Specificities and Legacy of the Pragmatism Conception of Recognition. In: Siep, L., Ikaheimo, H., Quante, M. (eds) Handbuch Anerkennung. Springer Reference Geisteswissenschaften. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-19561-8_50-1
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