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Paul Ricœur devoted much of his last ten years to studies and analyses of justice and recognition. This paper will trace the indelible bonds between justice and recognition and claim that recognition is a necessary condition for justice and that justice is the telos or goal of recognition. I begin this paper with a review of the multiple meanings of recognition in the two famous French dictionaries, the Littré (1859-1872) and the Le Grand Robert (1985). In his book, The Course of Recognition (2005), Ricoeur groups recognition under three headings, recognition as a form of knowledge or cognition (epistemological), self-recognition, and recognition of the other on the social and judicial level.The complexities of the meanings of "to recognize" and "recognition" are important in their roles in the realm of justice. I include in the concept of justice, the judiciary, both civil and criminal; distributive justice; and, social and political justice. For each one of these, there are multiple meanings of recognition that are important to understanding their foundation and their scope. There are meanings of recognition that are relevant to other aspects of social justice as the recognition of marginal, oppressed, devalued, groups as deserving of being treated as equals. The structure of my paper is to go through the various meanings and categories of meanings of "to recognize" and "recognition." I give an account of each of the types of justice and show how various kinds of recognition are relevant to each kind of justice. ; Paul Ricœur a consacré une grande partie des dix dernières années de sa vie à l'étude et à l'analyse de la justice et de la reconnaissance. Cet article a pour but de montrer les liens indélébiles existant entre la justice et la reconnaissance et il défend l'idée selon laquelle la reconnaissance est une condition nécessaire de la justice en ce que la justice est le telos ou la finalité de la reconnaissance. Je débute ma réflexion par une analyse des multiples significations du terme "reconnaissance" en examinant les deux célèbres dictionnaires français: le Littré (1859-1872) et Le Grand Robert (1985). Dans Parcours de la reconnaissance (2005), Ricœur place la reconnaissance sous les trois rubriques suivantes: la reconnaissance comme forme de connaissance (reconnaissance épistémologique), la reconnaissance de soi, et la reconnaissance de l'autre sur le plan social et judicaire.Les complexités des différentes significations de "reconnaître" et de "reconnaissance" jouent un rôle important dans le domaine de la justice. Dans ma compréhension du concept de la justice j'inclus aussi bien la justice au sens judiciaire – tant civile que pénale – que la justice distributive et la justice sociale et politique. À chacune de ces formes de justice correspondent de multiples significations de la reconnaissance qui sont importantes pour comprendre leur fondation et leur portée. Il y a en outre des significations de la reconnaissance qui sont applicables à d'autres aspects de la justice sociale comme la reconnaissance des groupes marginaux, opprimés et dépréciés en ce qu'ils méritent d'être traités sur un pied d'égalité. Le développement de cet article consiste à examiner les différentes significations et catégories des termes: "reconnaître" et "reconnaissance"; il rend compte de chacun des types de justice et montre comment différentes formes de reconnaissance sont applicables à différentes formes de justice.

This essay places Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's later writings on poetry alongside her early unpublished piece "The 1001 Seances" to illustrate how the latter theorizes the connection between poetic form (and its relation to the novelistic) and male-male homoerotics. I then consider Sedgwick's continuing interest as both a critic and a poet in the erotics of genre, especially as it reappears in A Dialogue on Love.

In an era of heightened concern about injustice in relations of identity and difference, political theorists often prescribe equal recognition as a remedy for the ills of subordination. Drawing on the philosophy of Hegel, they envision a system of reciprocal knowledge and esteem, in which the affirming glance of others lets everyone be who they really are. This book challenges the equation of recognition with justice. Patchen Markell mines neglected strands of the concept's genealogy and reconstructs an unorthodox interpretation of Hegel, who, in the unexpected company of Sophocles, Aristotle

Existing scholarship on the active citizenship of undocumented migrants is inconclusive on its perils and promises. While some scholars see it as symptomatic of the moral economy that makes legal recognition dependent on demonstrating civic deservingness, others argue that it represents a potential site of contestation against illegalisation. In this paper, we argue that we need to focus on the complex processes that drive undocumented migrants' quest for recognition in order to understand the political ambiguities implicated in how they civically engage themselves. We use the case of CollectActif (CA), an undocumented-led anti-food waste collective in Brussels, to argue that methods of participatory action research (PAR) are better placed than ex-post analyses to show how recognition processes unfold and evolve over time. We show that recognition depends on establishing 'equivalence' to prevailing norms and forms of civic organisation. Hence, CA members generated solidarity and created new publics by behaving as active citizens. Yet, despite increased visibility, CA struggled to be recognised by established actors in the field as actors with equal rights to

Facial Recognition Technology (FRT) emerged as a solution to address several contemporary needs of identifying and verifying an individual's identity. It fulfills the biometric system requirements, which tries to recognize the status of an individual by using features distinctive from the body and functionalities that are more familiar with the operation of visual surveillance. This report develops an analysis that connects the socio-scientific literature with the technology on FTR and addresses the concerns and challenges attached to the development, evolutional, and the operational usage that are specific, the contexts, and goals. It highlights the problematic, potentials, and the limitations of the technology. The report also identifies the tasks that the FRT seems to be ready to deploy, the areas with specified obstacles, and how to overcome them by the developments of future technology and operating procedures of sound. It also addresses specific issues that appear to interact with technology. It is also concerned with the ethical considerations on the extent of efficacy. The report's findings are further broken down into different categories to understand further the evaluation, performance, operation, policy concerns, and political and moral operations. So far, the technology has been implemented in several fields to enable monitoring and surveillance. In this background, the report also addresses the FRT alterations on the nature of the authoritarian and lines that are oppressive in the United States as the primary focus.

This essay aims to extend Paul Ricœur's account of recognition to address some of the concerns of globalization, especially those voiced by Enrique Dussel. The extension is accomplished in two parts. First, Dussel's account of spatial existence as dwelling is reviewed as it is pertinent to the concerns of globalization. Next, it is demonstrated that each of the aspects of Ricœur's account of recognition may be given a spatial re-articulation. The results thus establish an outline of how recognition theory might address some of the concerns of globalization. The essay concludes with several consequences for the modification of recognition politics as one finds it in the late work of Ricœur and in Axel Honneth's ongoing inquiries.