Axel Honneth : a critical theory of the social / Christopher F. Zurn.
By: Zurn, Christopher F
Material type: TextSeries: Key contemporary thinkers (Cambridge, England): Publisher: Cambridge , UK ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, 2015Description: viii, 257 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9780745649030 (hardback : alk. paper); 0745649033 (hardback : alk. paper); 9780745649047 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0745649041 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Honneth, Axel, 1949- | Philosophy -- Modern (1450/1600- ) -- Germany -- 21st century | Social sciences -- Philosophy | Sociology -- Philosophy | Critical theory | Honneth, Axel, 1949- | Critical theory | Social sciences -- Philosophy | Sociology -- Philosophy | HONNETH, AXEL, 1949- | SOCIAL SCIENCES -- PHILOSOPHY | SOCIOLOGY -- PHILOSOPHY | CRITICAL THEORYDDC classification: 301.092 LOC classification: B3399 | .H66 Z87 A94 2015B63 | .Z87 2015Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Individuals' struggle for recognition -- Social struggles for recognition -- Diagnosing social pathologies -- Recognition and markets -- Social freedom and recognition -- Concluding speculations.
With his insightful and wide-ranging theory of recognition, Axel Honneth has decisively reshaped the Frankfurt School tradition of critical social theory. Combining insights from philosophy, sociology, psychology, history, political economy, and cultural critique, Honneth's work proposes nothing less than an account of the moral infrastructure of human sociality and its relation to the perils and promise of contemporary social life. This book provides an accessible overview of Honneth's main contributions across a variety of fields, assessing the strengths and weaknesses of his thought. Christopher Zurn clearly explains Honneth's multi-faceted theory of recognition and its relation to diverse topics: individual identity, morality, activist movements, progress, social pathologies, capitalism, justice, freedom, and critique. In so doing, he places Honneth's theory in a broad intellectual context, encompassing classic social theorists such as Kant, Hegel, Marx, Freud, Dewey, Adorno and Habermas, as well as contemporary trends in social theory and political philosophy. Treating the full range of Honneth's corpus, including his major new work on social freedom and democratic ethical life, this book is the most up-to-date guide available.-- Provided by publisher.
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