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Freedom's Right

Author : Axel Honneth
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745680062
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Freedom's Right written by Axel Honneth and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 their “field of application” - namely, social reality. Axel Honneth proposes a different approach. He seeks to derive the currently definitive criteria of social justice directly from the normative claims that have developed within Western liberal democratic societies. These criteria and these claims together make up what he terms “democratic ethical life”: a system of morally legitimate norms that are not only legally anchored, but also institutionally established. Honneth justifies this far-reaching endeavour by demonstrating that all essential spheres of action in Western societies share a single feature, as they all claim to realize a specific aspect of individual freedom. In the spirit of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right and guided by the theory of recognition, Honneth shows how principles of individual freedom are generated which constitute the standard of justice in various concrete social spheres: personal relationships, economic activity in the market, and the political public sphere. Honneth seeks thereby to realize a very ambitious aim: to renew the theory of justice as an analysis of society.

The Critical Theory of Axel Honneth

Author : Danielle Petherbridge
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739172042
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book The Critical Theory of Axel Honneth written by Danielle Petherbridge and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Critical Theory of Axel Honneth provides a comprehensive study of the work of Axel Honneth, tracing the theoretical trajectory from his earliest writings on philosophical anthropology to the development of a theory of recognition. The book argues that Honneth’s early work provides important insights for the reconstruction of the normative project of critical theory and the articulation of a conceptual framework for analyzing social relations of power and domination. Danielle Petherbridge contends, however, that these aims are not fully realized in Honneth’s more mature project and that central insights recede as his project develops. Petherbridge seeks to demonstrate that the basis for an alternative theory of intersubjectivity that can account for both an adequate theory of power and normative forms of subject-formation can be immanently reconstructed from within Honneth’s own work. By contextualizing Honneth’s project in relation to its theoretical influences, The Critical Theory of Axel Honneth provides a critical study and excellent entry point that will be essential reading for both students and scholars who work in the areas of European philosophy, critical theory, social and political philosophy, or social and political theory.

Axel Honneth

Author : Christopher Zurn
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745686788
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Axel Honneth written by Christopher Zurn and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-04-22 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With his insightful and wide-ranging theory of recognition, AxelHonneth has decisively reshaped the Frankfurt School tradition ofcritical social theory. Combining insights from philosophy,sociology, psychology, history, political economy, and culturalcritique, Honneth’s work proposes nothing less than anaccount of the moral infrastructure of human sociality and itsrelation to the perils and promise of contemporary sociallife. This book provides an accessible overview of Honneth’s maincontributions across a variety of fields, assessing the strengthsand weaknesses of his thought. Christopher Zurn clearly explainsHonneth’s multi-faceted theory of recognition and itsrelation to diverse topics: individual identity, morality, activistmovements, progress, social pathologies, capitalism, justice,freedom, and critique. In so doing, he places Honneth’stheory in a broad intellectual context, encompassing classic socialtheorists such as Kant, Hegel, Marx, Freud, Dewey, Adorno andHabermas, as well as contemporary trends in social theory andpolitical philosophy. Treating the full range of Honneth’scorpus, including his major new work on social freedom anddemocratic ethical life, this book is the most up-to-date guideavailable. Axel Honneth will be invaluable to students and scholarsworking across the humanities and social sciences, as well asanyone seeking a clear guide to the work of one of the mostinfluential theorists writing today.

The Struggle for Recognition

Author : Axel Honneth
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745692427
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book The Struggle for Recognition written by Axel Honneth and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-03-12 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Recognition and Ambivalence

Author : Heikki Ikäheimo
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231544219
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Recognition and Ambivalence written by Heikki Ikäheimo and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recognition is one of the most debated concepts in contemporary social and political thought. Its proponents, such as Axel Honneth, hold that to be recognized by others is a basic human need that is central to forming an identity, and the denial of recognition deprives individuals and communities of something essential for their flourishing. Yet critics including Judith Butler have questioned whether recognition is implicated in structures of domination, arguing that the desire to be recognized can motivative individuals to accept their assigned place in the social order by conforming to oppressive norms or obeying repressive institutions. Is there a way to break this impasse? Recognition and Ambivalence brings together leading scholars in social and political philosophy to develop new perspectives on recognition and its role in social life. It begins with a debate between Honneth and Butler, the first sustained engagement between these two major thinkers on this subject. Contributions from both proponents and critics of theories of recognition further reflect upon and clarify the problems and challenges involved in theorizing the concept and its normative desirability. Together, they explore different routes toward a critical theory of recognition, departing from wholly positive or negative views to ask whether it is an essentially ambivalent phenomenon. Featuring original, systematic work in the philosophy of recognition, this book also provides a useful orientation to the key debates on this important topic.

Recognition or Disagreement

Author : Axel Honneth
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231541449
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Recognition or Disagreement written by Axel Honneth and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-10 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 societies. In a rare dialogue, these two philosophers explore the affinities and tensions between their perspectives to provoke new ideas for social and political change. Honneth sees modern society as a field in which the logic of recognition provides individuals with increasing possibilities for freedom and is a constant catalyst for transformation. Rancière sees the social as a policing order and the political as a force that must radically assert equality. Honneth claims Rancière's conception of the political lies outside of actual historical societies and involves a problematic desire for egalitarianism. Rancière argues that Honneth's theory of recognition relies on an overly substantial conception of identity and subjectivity. While impassioned, their exchange seeks to advance critical theory's political project by reconciling the rift between German and French post-Marxist traditions and proposing new frameworks for justice.

Recognition and Power

Author : Bert van den Brink
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 113946275X
Total Pages : 21 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Recognition and Power written by Bert van den Brink and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-04-09 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The topic of recognition has come to occupy a central place in debates in social and political theory. Developed by George Herbert Mead and Charles Taylor, it has been given expression in the program for Critical Theory developed by Axel Honneth in his book The Struggle for Recognition. Honneth's research program offers an empirically insightful way of reflecting on emancipatory struggles for greater justice and a powerful theoretical tool for generating a conception of justice and the good that enables the normative evaluation of such struggles. This 2007 volume offers a critical clarification and evaluation of this research program, particularly its relationship to the other major development in critical social and political theory; namely, the focus on power as formative of practical identities (or forms of subjectivity) proposed by Michel Foucault and developed by theorists such as Judith Butler, James Tully, and Iris Marion Young.

Disrespect

Author : Axel Honneth
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745694497
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Disrespect written by Axel Honneth and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 of recognition has gained worldwide attention and is seen by some as the principal counterpart to Habermass theory of discourse ethics. In this important new volume, Honneth pursues his path-breaking work on recognition by exploring the moral experiences of disrespect that underpin the conduct of social and political critique. What we might conceive of as a striving for social recognition initially appears in a negative form as the experience of humiliation or disrespect. Honneth argues that disrespect constitutes the systematic key to a comprehensive theory of recognition that seeks to clarify the sense in which institutionalized patterns of social recognition generate justified demands on the way subjects treat each other. This new book by one of the leading social and political philosophers of our time will be of particular interest to students and scholars in social and political theory and philosophy.

Redistribution Or Recognition?

Author : Nancy Fraser
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9781859844922
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (449 download)

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Download or read book Redistribution Or Recognition? written by Nancy Fraser and published by Verso. This book was released on 2003 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A debate between two philosophers who hold different views on the relation of redistribution to recognition.

The Critique of Power

Author : Axel Honneth
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262581288
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (812 download)

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Download or read book The Critique of Power written by Axel Honneth and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1993-10-04 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this rich interpretation of the history of critical theory, Axel Hormeth clarifies critical theory's central problems and emphasizes the social factors that should provide it with a normative and practical orientation. Axel Honneth's Critique of Power is a rich interpretation of the history of critical theory, which clarifies its central problems and emphasizes the "social" factors that should provide that theory with a normative and practical orientation. Honneth focuses on the dialog between French and German social theory that was beginning at the time of Michel Foucault's death. It traces the common roots of the work of Foucault and Jürgen Habermas to a basic text of the last generation of critical theorists—Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno's Dialectic of Enlightenment—and draws from this connection the outline of a program that might unite and surpass their seemingly irreconcilable methods of critiquing power structures. In doing so, Honneth provides a constructive and nonpolemical framework for comparisons between the two theorists. And he presents a novel interpretation of Foucault's analysis of social systems. Honneth traces the internal contradictions in critical theory through an analysis of Horkheimer's early programmatic writings, the Dialectic of Enlightenment, and Adorno's later social-theoretical writings. He shows how Habermas and Foucault in their distinctive ways reinserted the social world into critical theory but argues that neither operation has been wholly successful. His cogent analysis redirects critical social theory in ways that can draw on the strengths and avoid the weaknesses of the two approaches.

Social Action and Human Nature

Author : Axel Honneth
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521339353
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (393 download)

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Download or read book Social Action and Human Nature written by Axel Honneth and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1988 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Reification

Author : Axel Honneth
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019988644X
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Reification written by Axel Honneth and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-01-28 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Recognition

Author : Axel Honneth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108836860
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Recognition written by Axel Honneth and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-22 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the complex history, development and multiple associations of 'Recognition' as a central political idea in Britain, France and Germany.

The Pathologies of Individual Freedom

Author : Axel Honneth
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069111806X
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book The Pathologies of Individual Freedom written by Axel Honneth and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a penetrating reinterpretation and defense of Hegel's social theory as an alternative to reigning liberal notions of social justice. The eminent German philosopher Axel Honneth rereads Hegel's Philosophy of Right to show how it diagnoses the pathologies of the overcommitment to individual freedom that Honneth says underlies the ideas of Rawls and Habermas alike. Honneth argues that Hegel's theory contains an account of the psychological damage caused by placing too much emphasis on personal and moral freedom. Although these freedoms are crucial to the achievement of justice, they are insufficient and in themselves leave people vulnerable to loneliness, emptiness, and depression. Hegel argues that people must also find their freedom or "self-realization" through shared projects. Such projects involve the three institutions of ethical life--family, civil society, and the state--and provide the arena of a crucial third kind of freedom, which Honneth calls "communicative" freedom. A society is just only if it gives all of its members sufficient and equal opportunity to realize communicative freedom as well as personal and moral freedom.

Recognition and Freedom

Author : Jonas Jakobsen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004287345
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Recognition and Freedom written by Jonas Jakobsen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-01-27 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recognition and Freedom brings together leading international scholars to discuss the political thought of the social philosopher Axel Honneth. In addition to providing an introduction to Honneth’s political thought, the book examines topics such as education, solidarity, multiculturalism, agonism, neo-liberalism and the ways in which these issues challenge core aspects of liberal democracies. The book includes an interview with Axel Honneth in the light of his most recent work, Freedom’s Right, as well as an essay by him previously unpublished in English.

The Idea of Socialism

Author : Axel Honneth
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509512152
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book The Idea of Socialism written by Axel Honneth and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-12-27 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. How can we explain the rapid decline of this once powerful idea? And what must we do to renew it for the twenty-first century? In this lucid, political-philosophical essay, Axel Honneth argues that the idea of socialism has lost its luster because its theoretical assumptions stem from the industrial era and are no longer convincing in our contemporary post-industrial societies. Only if we manage to replace these assumptions with a concept of history and society that corresponds to our current experiences will we be able to restore confidence in a project whose fundamental idea remains as relevant today as it was a century ago the idea of an economy that realizes freedom in solidarity. The Idea of Socialism was awarded the Bruno Kreisky Prize for the Political Book of 2015.

Axel Honneth: Critical Essays

Author : Danielle Petherbridge
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004208852
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Axel Honneth: Critical Essays written by Danielle Petherbridge and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-08-11 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Axel Honneth: Critical Essays brings together critical interpretations of the work of Axel Honneth, from his earliest to his most recent writings, together with a comprehensive reply by Honneth that provides significant insights and clarifications into his project overall.