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Axel Honneth (/ˈhɒnɪt, -ɛt/; German: [aksl̩ ˈhɔnɛt]; born 18 July 1949) is a German philosopher who is the
Research Axel Honneth
Professor for Social Philosophy at Goethe University Frankfurt[6] and the Jack B. Weinstein Professor of the
Works translated into English Humanities in the department of philosophy at Columbia University.[7] He was also director of the Institut für
See also Sozialforschung (Institute for Social Research) in Frankfurt am Main, Germany between 2001 and 2018.

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Biography [ edit ]

External links Honneth was born in Essen, West Germany on 18 July 1949, studied in Bonn, Bochum, Berlin and Munich
(under Jürgen Habermas), and taught at the Free University of Berlin and the New School before moving to
the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University of Frankfurt in 1996. He also held the Spinoza Chair of Philosophy
Honneth in 2016
[8]
at the University of Amsterdam in 1999. Between 2001 and 2018 he was director of the Institute for Social
Born 18 July 1949 (age 74)
Research, originally home to the so-called Frankfurt School, at the University of Frankfurt.[9] Since 2011, he Essen, West Germany
is also Jack B. Weinstein Professor of the Humanities at the department of philosophy at Columbia University
Alma mater University of Bonn
in the City of New York.[10] Ruhr University Bochum
Free University of Berlin

Research [ edit ] Era Contemporary philosophy

Region Western philosophy
Honneth's work focuses on social-political and moral philosophy, especially relations of power, recognition,
and respect. One of his core arguments is for the priority of intersubjective relationships of recognition in School Continental philosophy ·
Frankfurt School ·
understanding social relations. This includes non- and mis-recognition as a basis of social and interpersonal
Neopragmatism
conflict. For instance, grievances regarding the distribution of goods in society are ultimately struggles for
Institutions Free University of Berlin
recognition justice. Goethe University Frankfurt
His first main work The Critique of Power: Reflective Stages in a Critical Social Theory explores the affinities Columbia University

between the Frankfurt School and Michel Foucault. In his second main work The Struggle for Recognition: Doctoral Carolin Emcke[1][2] · Rahel
students Jaeggi · Hartmut Rosa · Harald
Moral Grammar of Social Conflicts, the recognition concept is derived mainly from G. W. F. Hegel's early
Lemke [de][3]
social philosophical works, but is supplemented by George Herbert Mead's social psychology, Jürgen
Main Political philosophy · Social
Habermas' communicative ethics, and Donald Winnicott's object relations theory. Honneth's critical interests philosophy · Moral philosophy ·
adaptation of these is the basis of his critical social theory, which attempts to remedy the deficits of previous Critical theory · Recognition
approaches. In 2003, Honneth co-authored Recognition or Redistribution? with the feminist philosopher
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Nancy Fraser, who criticizes the priority of ethical categories such as recognition over structural social-
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political categories such as redistribution in Honneth's thought. His recent work Reification reformulates this
key "Western Marxist" concept in terms of intersubjective relations of recognition and power. For Honneth, all
forms of reification are due to intersubjectively based pathologies rather than the structural character of social systems such as capitalism as argued by
Karl Marx and György Lukács.

In The Idea of Socialism, Honneth calls for a revision of socialist theory in order to make it relevant for the 21st century, based on a criticism of the socialist
theory of historical materialism, ignorance of political rights and social differentiation in modern societies, and overemphasis on the working class as a
revolutionary subject. In order to fully realize the three principles of the French revolution, Honneth suggests three revisions: Replacing economic
determinism with historical experimentation inspired by John Dewey, expanding social freedom – mutual dependence and cooperation among members of
society – to the other spheres of modern society (i.e. the political and the private), as well as addressing all citizens of the democratic sphere.

Works translated into English [ edit ]

Social Action and Human Nature, co-authored with Hans Joas (Cambridge University Press, 1988 [1980]).
The Critique of Power: Reflective Stages in a Critical Social Theory (MIT Press, 1991 [1985]).
The Fragmented World of the Social: Essays in Social and Political Philosophy (SUNY Press, 1995 [1990]).
The Struggle for Recognition: The Moral Grammar of Social Conflicts (Polity Press, 1995 [1992]).
Redistribution or Recognition?: A Political-Philosophical Exchange, co-authored with Nancy Fraser (Verso, 2003).
Reification: A Recognition-Theoretical View (Oxford University Press, 2007).
Disrespect: The Normative Foundations of Critical Theory (Polity Press, 2007 [2000]).
Pathologies of Reason: On the Legacy of Critical Theory (2009).
The Pathologies of Individual Freedom: Hegel's Social Theory (2010).
The I in We: Studies in the Theory of Recognition (2012).
Freedom's Right (2014).
The Idea of Socialism (2016).

See also [ edit ]

Critical theory
Biography portal
Recognition (sociology)
Social exclusion
Charles Taylor (philosopher)

References [ edit ]

1. ^ "Authors - PublicSpace" .
2. ^ "Journalism, human rights and moral rectitude: Letters from a war zone" . 14 August 2010.
3. ^ "Einstein Forum – Wissen essen oder die Weisheit eines guten Geschmacks" .
4. ^ Honneth, Axel. "Reification: A Recognition-Theoretical View" (PDF). tannerlectures.utah.edu/lecture-library.php. Tanner Humanities Center.
5. ^ Campbell, Catherine Galko (2014). Persons, Identity, and Political Theory: A Defense of Rawlsian Political Identity. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer. p. 58.
doi:10.1007/978-94-007-7917-4 . ISBN 978-94-007-7917-4.
6. ^ "Goethe-Universität —" .
7. ^ "Axel Honneth | Philosophy" .
8. ^ uva.nl
9. ^ "Axel Honneth | Institut für Sozioalforschung (IfS), Frankfurt (Main)" . Archived from the original on 29 October 2013. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
10. ^ "Axel Honneth | Department of Philosophy - Columbia University" . Archived from the original on 15 April 2012. Retrieved 6 March 2012.

Further reading [ edit ]

Bert van den Brink and David Owen, Recognition and Power: Axel Honneth and the Tradition of Critical Social Theory (Cambridge University Press,
2007).
Deranty, Jean-Philippe, Beyond Communication: A Critical Study of Axel Honneth's Social Philosophy (Brill, 2009).
Iser, Matthias, Empörung und Fortschritt. Grundlagen einer Kritischen Theorie der Gesellschaft (Campus, 2008).
Schmidt-am-Busch, Hans-Christoph and Zurn, Christopher (eds), The Philosophy of Recognition. Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (Lexington
Books, 2009)
Thompson, Simon, The Political Theory of Recognition. A Critical Introduction (Polity, 2006).
Huttunen, Rauno, Habermas, Honneth and Education (Lambert Academic Publishing 2009).

External links [ edit ]

Tanner Lecture on Reification, 2005

Wikiquote has quotations
2006 Program of Research: Paradoxes of Capitalist Modernization related to Axel Honneth.

Joel Anderson's Introduction to The Struggle for Recognition.

Wikimedia Commons has
Honneth in London Axel Honneth in conversation with Peter Dews, 2007 media related to Axel
Honneth.
Homepages of Axel Honneth at the University of Frankfurt and the Institute for Social Research .
2007 Talks by Honneth Archived 23 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine
"Patterns of Intersubjective Recognition: Love, Rights, and Solidarity" by Honneth
"Social Criticism in the Age of the Normalized Intellectual"
Chapter 1, The Pathologies of Individual Freedom: Hegel's Social Theory (2010)
Recognition Forum (Research on recognition theory, bibliographies, theses, events, forum)
Interview with Axel Honneth, Barcelona Metropolis, num. 78, Spring, 2010.
Interview with Honneth for the Platypus Review 59 (September, 2013)
Publications by Axel Honneth in WorldCat

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