In this work, Cynthia Willett puts forward a novel theory of ethical subjectivity that counters the pathology of sexist, racist, Eurocentric culture. Weaving together accounts of the self drawn from African-American and European philosophies, psychoanalysis, slave narratives and sociology, Willett interrogates what Hegel locates as the core of the self: the desire for recognition. What a subject experiences as social death, cultural alienation or spirit murder according to Willett are problems in the social and psychological dynamics of recognition. A colonized subject suffers from sources of...