"The Good of Recognition" analyzes the polysemy of recognition operative in the thought of two contemporary French thinkers, Emmanuel Levinas (1906 1995) and Paul Ric ur (1913 2005). Author Michael Sohn shows that recognition a concept most often associated with Hegel s works appears prominently throughout the works of Levinas and Ric ur, which exist at the intersection of phenomenology, ethics, politics, and religion. Sohn situates recognition in the sociopolitical context of Levinas and Ric ur and excavates the philosophical and religious sources that undergird the two thinkers use of...