This study offers a new interpretation of Hegelian recognition focusing on positive ethical behaviours, such as love and forgiveness. Building on the work of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre, Disley reassesses Hegel's work on the subject/object dialectic and explores the previously neglected theological dimensions of his work.

Introduction, Liz Disley; Chapter 1 The Social Self and the Master-Slave Dialectic, Liz Disley; Chapter 2 The Self of Self-Consciousness: Ethical Concepts, Metaphysical Frameworks, Liz Disley; Chapter 3 Intersubjectivity, Monistic Ontology and the Social World, Liz Disley; Chapter 4 Ambiguity and the Ontologically Split Self, Liz Disley; Chapter 5 Forgiveness: Confrontation, Metanoia and the Freedom of the Other, Liz Disley; Chapter 6 Love: Ethical Part nership and the Self in the Other, Liz Disley; concl Conclusion, Liz Disley;