Axel Honneth: 16 books
Recognition or Disagreement
A Critical Encounter on the Politics of Freedom, Equality, and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Axel Honneth is best known for his critique of modern society centered on a concept of recognition. Jacques Rancière has advanced an influential theory of modern politics based on disagreement. Underpinning their thought is a concern for the logics of exclusion and domination that structure contemporary...
Pathologies of Reason
On the Legacy of Critical Theory
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
Axel Honneth has been instrumental in advancing the work of the Frankfurt School of critical theorists, rebuilding their effort to combine radical social and political analysis with rigorous philosophical inquiry. These eleven essays published over the past five years reclaim the relevant themes of...
The I in We
Studies in the Theory of Recognition
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
In this volume Axel Honneth deepens and develops his highly influential theory of recognition, showing how it enables us both to rethink the concept of justice and to offer a compelling account of the relationship between social reproduction and individual identity formation.
Drawing on his...
Freedom's Right
The Social Foundations of Democratic Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
The theory of justice is one of the most intensely debated areas of contemporary philosophy. Most theories of justice, however, have only attained their high level of justification at great cost. By focusing on purely normative, abstract principles, they become detached from the sphere that constitutes...
Disrespect
The Normative Foundations of Critical Theory
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Over the last decade, Axel Honneth has established himself as one of the leading social and political philosophers in the world today. Rooted in the tradition of critical theory, his writings have been central to the revitalization of critical theory and have become increasingly influential. His theory...
Freedom's Right
The Social Foundations of Democratic Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
Theories of justice often fixate on purely normative, abstract principles unrelated to real-world situations. The philosopher and theorist Axel Honneth addresses this disconnect, and constructs a theory of justice derived from the normative claims of Western liberal-democratic societies and anchored...
by Axel Honneth
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: December 8, 2017
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: December 8, 2017
A teoria da justiça é um dos campos mais intensamente estudados da filosofia contemporânea. No entanto, só a muito custo a maior parte das teorias da justiça atingiu seu alto grau de justificação, pois, com sua fixação em princípios puramente normativos e abstratos, acabaram por incidir...
The Idea of Socialism
Towards a Renewal
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
The idea of socialism has given normative grounding and orientation to the outrage over capitalism for more than 150 years, and yet today it seems to have lost much of its appeal. Despite growing discontent, many would hesitate to invoke socialism when it comes to envisioning life beyond capitalism....
Reification
A New Look at an Old Idea
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2008
In these original and imaginative essays, delivered as the Tanner Lectures at the University of California, Berkeley in 2005, the distinguished third-generation Frankfurt School philosopher Axel Honneth attempts to rescue the concept of reification by recasting it in terms of the philosophy of recognition he has been developing over the past two decades.
The Struggle for Recognition
The Moral Grammar of Social Conflicts
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
In this book Axel Honneth re-examines arguments put forward by Hegel and claims that the 'struggle for recognition' should be at the centre of social conflicts.
Redistribution or Recognition?
A Political-Philosophical Exchange
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2020
“Recognition” has become a veritable keyword of our time, but its relation to “redistribution” remains undertheorized. This volume remedies the lacuna by staging a sustained debate between two philosophers, one North American, the other European, who hold different views of the matter. Highly...
Transitional Subjects
Critical Theory and Object Relations
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2019
Critical social theory has long been marked by a deep, creative, and productive relationship with psychoanalysis. Whereas Freud and Fromm were important cornerstones for the early Frankfurt School, recent thinkers have drawn on the object-relations school of psychoanalysis. Transitional Subjects is...
The Philosophy of Recognition
Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2009
The theory of recognition is now a well-established and mature research paradigm in philosophy, and it is both influential in and influenced by developments in other fields of the humanities and social sciences. From debates in moral philosophy about the fundamental roots of obligation, to debates...
Ich@Wir
Ein Streitgespräch über rechts und links in der globalisierten Moderne
Language: German
Release Date: March 1, 2013
In ihrem Streitgespräch zum Kursbuch 173 diskutieren Alex Honneth und Paul Nolte den Unterschied zwischen rechter und linker Gesinnung bzw. stellen die Frage, ob eine solche im modernen politischen Diskurs überhaupt noch Bestand hat. Was zeichnet Linkssein aus? Haben Rechte auch einen Fortschrittswillen?...
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