{"title":"Response to Roundtable Discussion","authors":"A. Honneth","doi":"10.1163/22130624-20220001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22130624-20220001","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000In this text I will deal with three worries that were articulated by my three responders in astounding unanimity: firstly, I will defend the nation-based framework of my history of the idea of recognition on basis of the well-established hypothesis that there is path-dependency of later aesthetic or theoretical productions (1); secondly, I hope to be able to demonstrate that the various theories of subjectivity I investigate can in fact all be subsumed under the concept of “recognition” (2); and thirdly, I will try to clarify the motives I had for synthetizing the three different concepts of recognition in one single approach (3). In an extra step at the end of my article I explain why I don’t see myself making the mistake to assign philosophy the function of something amounting to a leading discipline in the history of ideas (4).","PeriodicalId":227091,"journal":{"name":"International Journal for History, Culture and Modernity","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123416295","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How to Revisit the Question of Modernity? Some Propositions","authors":"P. Blitstein, Cyril Lemieux, _ _","doi":"10.1163/22130624-20220007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22130624-20220007","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Often dismissed as evolutionism and sometimes accused of maintaining neocolonial domination, the field of studies dedicated to modernity and processes of modernisation has been progressively discredited in the social sciences over the last forty years. However, for some time now, a number of historians and sociologists have sought to rehabilitate this field on new grounds. Rejecting both the miserabilist and populist approaches that have held the monopoly on studies of modernity for too long, their work outlines a research program whose coherence and main arguments are presented in this article. We show that this research program proposes a properly methodological definition of modernity – as the present of humanity – and imposes four major conditions on the study of modernity and processes of modernisation: the refusal of state-centrism; an attention to the practical foundations of different conceptions of “modernity”; an adherence to the principle of contemporaneity; and finally, a commitment to anchoring the generalising ambition of the social sciences within a rigorous search for processual analogies.","PeriodicalId":227091,"journal":{"name":"International Journal for History, Culture and Modernity","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131372649","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Recognition, Transformation, and Critical Intellectual History: A Reply to Honneth’s Recognition: A Chapter in the History of Ideas","authors":"W. Levine","doi":"10.1163/22130624-20220006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22130624-20220006","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article critically responds to Axel Honneth’s Recognition: A Chapter in the History of Ideas. It argues that, although Recognition provides a compelling historical investigation into the history of the concept of recognition as it emerged in modern France, Great Britain, and Germany, Honneth’s text retains some questionable methodological commitments that undermine its more provocative and potentially wide-ranging contributions. This article interrogates these commitments in addition to some of Honneth’s more specific arguments to speculate about other lessons that Honneth’s history of recognition can provide.","PeriodicalId":227091,"journal":{"name":"International Journal for History, Culture and Modernity","volume":"93 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129052229","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Historical, the National, and the Modern in Axel Honneth’s Recognition","authors":"Shiru Lim","doi":"10.1163/22130624-20220004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22130624-20220004","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 On what basis might we consider European thinkers to have bequeathed to us a theory of recognition? How relatable were their ideas across national lines—and coherent within them? And to what use can such a theory be put? This piece explores how Axel Honneth’s Recognition: A Chapter in the History of European Ideas (2021) tackles these questions. It examines its premises and uses of history, and tries to understand it both as part of a wider political-philosophical project, as well as an intervention in the history of political thought.","PeriodicalId":227091,"journal":{"name":"International Journal for History, Culture and Modernity","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132086438","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"H. Glenn Penny, In Humboldt’s Shadow: A Tragic History of German Ethnology","authors":"H. Vermeulen","doi":"10.1163/22130624-20220003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22130624-20220003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":227091,"journal":{"name":"International Journal for History, Culture and Modernity","volume":"230 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122861530","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Recognition for Good Europeans: On Axel Honneth’s Recognition","authors":"David Kretz","doi":"10.1163/22130624-20220005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22130624-20220005","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Axel Honneth’s Recognition tells a history of the concept of recognition along national lines. This response argues that a focus on transnational cross-pollination would be preferable on the grounds of historical accuracy, philosophical fecundity, and political cosmopolitanism. It would recognize its existent protagonists as the good Europeans they actually were and bring in others now relegated to the margins. It would lay the groundwork for a creative integration of national traditions, beyond the subsumption of French and British under German models. It would facilitate a theoretical dialogue with traditions beyond the Old Continent. I suggest that Hobbes could be a starting point for such a historical narrative, pointing to the importance of social recognition for his political theory (via Oakeshott), but also to traces of an incipient notion of moral-political recognition closer to the post-Kantian paradigm that Honneth champions.","PeriodicalId":227091,"journal":{"name":"International Journal for History, Culture and Modernity","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134397312","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Christian Patriots’: The Intersection Between Proto-fascism and Clerical Fascism in the Antebellum South","authors":"Stefan Roel Reyes","doi":"10.1163/22130624-00219121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22130624-00219121","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article examines the convergence between clerical fascism and proto-fascism in the Antebellum South of the United States. The author employs Roger Griffin’s theories of palingenetic ultranationalism and clerical fascism to understand the worldviews of Southern intellectuals. The author argues that a cadre of Southern theologians rejected the liberal heritage of the United States and redefined the relationship between the individual and state. Southern clerical fascists reconceived of an alternative modernity that reflected God’s precepts. Slaves, laborers, and slave masters all had a mandate to guide secular and spiritual progress. Furthermore, these Southern clerics believed the best hope for securing God’s order was to be found in the birth of a new Southern society – the Confederate States of America. This study builds upon the works of other historians who discerned the illiberal and authoritarian qualities of the American South while also contributing to delineation of the protean qualities of clerical fascism.","PeriodicalId":227091,"journal":{"name":"International Journal for History, Culture and Modernity","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127273101","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction to the Special Issue ‘Enlightenment and Modernity’","authors":"D. Vartija","doi":"10.1163/22130624-20200003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22130624-20200003","url":null,"abstract":"These introductory remarks present a brief overview of the question of the Enlightenment’s relationship to modernity. It charts the emergence of a novel sense of historicity connected to eighteenth-century usage of the term ‘enlightened’ and the belated, late twentieth-century attempts to connect this usage to modernity. The three contributions to this special issue are then introduced and the commonalities and divergences between them are highlighted.","PeriodicalId":227091,"journal":{"name":"International Journal for History, Culture and Modernity","volume":"85 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131592793","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"In the Shadow of the Public: Enlightenment and the Pitfalls of Modernity","authors":"Antoine Lilti","doi":"10.1163/22130624-20200004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22130624-20200004","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000The Enlightenment has often been presented as the ideological programme of modernity, the set of ideas and values from which modern, democratic and secularized Western societies have emerged. This reading, however, fails to account for the diversity and polyphony of the Enlightenment. Another reading, that of Michel Foucault, insisted on the ethos of modernity that the Enlightenment would have brought: a critical relationship with the present and current events. Conversely, this interpretation neglects the militant and collective dimension of the Enlightenment that favoured emancipation through knowledge. This article suggests, rather, seeing in the Enlightenment a way of problematizing modernity, of thinking about its contradictions. It develops this argument from a case study: the philosophes’ reflections on the public and its ambivalences. The optimism of the Enlightenment’s fight against prejudice was counterbalanced by a more pessimistic analysis of the new public space and of the media obstacles to the dissemination of knowledge and critical thinking.","PeriodicalId":227091,"journal":{"name":"International Journal for History, Culture and Modernity","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133989377","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}