Understanding Recognition: Conceptual and Empirical Studies

As the concept of recognition shifts from philosophical theory to other fields of the humanities and social sciences, this volume explores the nature of this border category that exists in the space between sociological and philosophical considerations.

Piotr Kulas is University Professor at the Faculty of ’Artes Liberales’ at the University of Warsaw, Poland. He is the author and editor of numerous books and articles on elites and the Polish intelligentsia. He is the Head of Elitylab UW.

Andrzej Waśkiewicz is Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Warsaw, Poland, and the author of Strangers by Choice: An Asocial Philosophy of Life and The Idea of Political Representation and Its Paradoxes.

Stanislaw Krawczyk is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Wroclaw, Poland. His recent work is primarily in higher education studies.