Axel Honneth Reconceiving Socicb

This book offers a critical assessment of Axel Honneth's complex and growing opus in social and political philosophy. It examines this in the context of the history and future of the Frankfurt School and in its relation to contemporary analytic approaches to social and political philosophy as well as postmodernist critics.

List of contents

Introduction / 1. Honneth and the History of the Frankfurt School / 2. A Method for Social Critique / 3. Recognition Theory / 4. Recognition and the Market / 5. Reification and Social Pathologies / 6. A New Programme for the Left: Re-appropriating Marx and Hegel / 7. Recognition Theory Meets Rawls / 8. Postmodernist Critiques / 9. Conclusion: The Future of Recognition Theory / Bibliography / Index

About the author

Dagmar Wilhelm is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of the West of England.

Summary

This book offers a critical assessment of Axel Honneth’s complex and growing opus in social and political philosophy. It examines this in the context of the history and future of the Frankfurt School and in its relation to contemporary analytic approaches to social and political philosophy as well as postmodernist critics.

Product details

• Authors: Dagmar Wilhelm, Wilhelm Dagmar
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2015
• EAN: 9781783486397
• ISBN: 978-1-78348-639-7
• Series: Reframing the Boundaries: Thinking the Political; Reframing the Boundaries: Thin; Reframing the Boundaries: Thinking the Political; Reframing the Boundaries: Thin
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Political, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Critical Theory, Social & political philosophy, Modern philosophy: since c 1800