TY - BOOK AU - Sang Ong- TI - Recognition and Vulnerability PY - 2010///. N1 - 25 N2 - This essay introduces us to central issues in contemporary social philosophy. Honneth considers recognition as a normative requirement in social relation, and also as a critical concept supporting the social struggles against misrecognition and social vulnerability. Butler thinks of recognition as a power relation, and builds a notion of « apprehension », as a critical instrument to think in a different way about recognition. The vulnerability of the body and the precariousness of life are never fully recognized but can be apprehended. Their discussion focuses on a concept of subject, produced in the context of intersubjectivity, and socially provided with decentered autonomy, especially with Butler’s conception of a permeable subject, grounded on an reinterpretation of a spinozist account of the conatus UR - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-archives-de-philosophie-2010-1-page-119?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080 ER -