In this pathbreaking study, Axel Honneth argues that "the struggle for recognition" is, and should be, at the center of social conflicts. Moving smoothly between moral philosophy and social theory, Honneth offers insights into such issues as the social forms of recognition and nonrecognition, the mo[...]

In the early 20th century, Marxist theory was enriched and rejuvenated by adopting the concept of reification, introduced by the Hungarian theorist Georg Lukacs to identify and denounce the transformation of historical processes into ahistorical entities, human actions into things that seemed part o[...]

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[...]

"Axel Honneth's book is stimulating, insightful, philosophically interesting, and analytically sophisticated. Its main contribution lies in its sympathetic, philosophically acute reconstruction of Hegel's position on individual freedom, which is made with an eye to lending it contemporary relevance.[...]

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 is unique in the field by offering a critical reconstruc[...]

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 reasses[...]

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.[...]

"Recognition" has become a veritable keyword of our time, but its relation to economic "redistribution" remains untheorized. This volume remedies the lacuna by staging a debate between two philosophers, one North American, the other European, who hold different views of the matter. Highly attuned to[...]

Den tyske sosialfilosofen Axel Honneths Kamp om anerkjennelse har status som et sosialfilosofisk hovedverk. Honneth analyserer de formelle betingelsene for selvrealisering, det vil si det gode liv, og viser hvordan den enkeltes selvtillit, selvaktelse og egenverdi er avhengig av anerkjennelse, i det[...]

Den tyske filosof Axel Honneth efterfulgte i 1996 Jürgen Habermas som professor på Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universitetet i Frankfurt. Han regnes i dag som den førende repræsentant for tredje generation af den såkaldte Frankfurterskole, der siden grundlæggelsen i 1931 har udgjort et [...]