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(2017) Phenomenology and the primacy of the political, Dordrecht, Springer.
I argue that Axel Honneth (2012), reappropriated Colwyn Trevarthen's distinction between primary and secondary intersubjectivity,into his critical social theory. How the concept of primary intersubjectivity gets re-incorporated, or indeed, re-cognized in Honneth's conception of recognition, however, is a complex issue that Iexplore in this essay. It is linked to questions not only about child development, but also about whether one should understand recognition in terms of a summons (Aufforderung), following Fichte, or in terms of a struggle, as Honneth, following Hegel, suggests, or in terms of a gift, as Ricoeur, following Hénaff suggests.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-56160-8_1
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Gallagher, S. (2017)., The struggle for recognition and the return of primary intersubjectivity, in V. Fóti & P. Kontos (eds.), Phenomenology and the primacy of the political, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 3-14.
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