Call for Reviews: Pathologies of Recognition | Studies in Social and Political Thought Journal Special Issue

Submission deadline: March 14, 2015

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The Studies in Social and Political Thought journal is now calling for book reviews for our upcoming special issue containing a series of papers from a ‘Pathologies of Recognition’ research group, headed by Arto Laitinen. We are looking for reviews that go beyond simply providing a summary of the contents of the books, and offer a critical perspective and make an original contribution to the contemporary debates on the theme of recognition.

We are particularly interested in the following books but we are open to suggestions:

  • Judith Butler & Athena Athanasiou, Dispossession: The Performative in the Political (Polity, 2013).
  • Jonas Jakobsen & Odin Lysaker, Recognition and Freedom Axel Honneth’s Political Thought (Brill, 2015).
  • Rahel Jaeggi, Alienation (Columbia University Press, 2014).
  • Rahel Jaeggi, Kritik von Lebensformen (Suhrkamp Verlag, 2013).
  • Cillian McBride, Recognition (Polity, 2013).
  • Danielle Petherbridge, The Critical Theory of Axel Honneth (Lexington Books, 2015).
  • Christopher Zurn, Axel Honneth (Polity, 2015).
  • Heikki Ikäheimo, Anerkennung (De Gruyter, 2014).
  • Arto Laitinen & Anne Birgitta Pessi (eds.) Solidarity: Theory and Practice (Lexington, 2015).
  • Arto Laitinen et al (eds.) Inwardness and orientation (SoPhi: Jyväskylä, 2014).
  • Federica Gregoratto & Filippo Ranchio (eds.) Contesti del riconoscimento [Contexts of Recognition] (Mimesis, 2014).
  • Danielle Petherbridge (ed.) Axel Honneth: Critical Essays With a Reply by Axel Honneth (Brill, 2011).
  • Heikki Ikäheimo & Arto Laitinen, Recognition and Social Ontology (Brill, 2011).
  • Volker Heins, Beyond Friend and Foe (Brill, 2011).
  • Jean-Philippe Deranty, Beyond Communication. A Critical Study of Axel Honneth’s Social Philosophy (Brill, 2009).
  • Jean-Philippe Deranty, et al (eds.) Recognition, Work, Politics: New Directions in French Critical Theory (Brill, 2007).

If you are interested in submitting a review, please send us an email [email protected] with the title of the book you want to review, a short bio containing your qualifications and current position, and we will inform you within a week as to whether your submission will be accepted. Please, bear in mind that we may not be able to provide you with review copies of the books.

Submissions should range from 2000 to 3000 words in length and written in the Harvard referencing style. The deadline is 15 March 2015.

The book reviews section of Studies in Social and Political Thought has two editors, Valentinos Kontoyiannis and Joel Winder. For additional information about the journal and the reviews section please contact us at [email protected].

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