Chapter 3. Tragic Recognition: Action and Identity in Antigone and Aristotle

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction: The Problem of Recognition 1
5. Chapter 1. From Recognition to Acknowledgment 9
6. Chapter 2. The Distinguishing Mark: Taylor, Herder, and Sovereignty 39
7. Chapter 3. Tragic Recognition: Action and Identity in Antigone and Aristotle 62
8. Chapter 4. The Abdication of Independence: On Hegel’s Phenomenology 90
9. Chapter 5. Double Binds: Jewish Emancipation and the Sovereign State 123
10. Chapter 6. The Slippery Slope: Multiculturalism as a Politics of Recognition 152
11. Conclusion: Toward a Politics of Acknowledgment 177
12. Afterword: A Note on the Cover 190
13. Notes 195
14. Works Cited 249
15. Index 277