Recognition Or Disagreement - A Critical Encounter on Politics of Freedom, Equality, Identity

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.

About the author

Axel Honneth is professor of philosophy at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt and the Jack C. Weinstein Professor for the Humanities at Columbia University. He is also the author of the Columbia University Press books Pathologies of Reason: On the Legacy of Critical Theory (2009) and Freedom's Right: The Social Foundations of Democratic Life (2014). Jacques Rancière is professor of philosophy emeritus at the University of Paris VIII. Among his major works translated into English are Hatred of Democracy (2007), Aesthetics and Its Discontents (2009), and Mute Speech: Literature, Critical Theory, and Politics (Columbia, 2011). Katia Genel is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Paris I¿Panthéon-Sorbonne. Jean-Philippe Deranty is associate professor of philosophy at Macquarie University, Sydney.

Report

When two hard stones are rubbed against each other, it produces sparks and light: this is what happens with this encounter 'in the real' between two major 'critical' philosophers of our time, both committed to democratizing democracy but addressing its current limits from opposite angles. A synthesis is not possible, though a commuting is immensely fruitful in order to elaborate one's own choices. The conversation is perfectly staged and commented upon by the editors. This book will be a point of reference. Étienne Balibar, author of Violence and Civility: On the Limits of Political Philosophy

Product details

• Authors: Axel Honneth, Axel Ranciere Honneth, Jacques Ranciere, Jacques Rancière
• Assisted by: Jean-Philippe Deranty (Editor), Jean-Philippe (Book Review Editor Deranty (Editor), Deranty Jean-Philippe (Editor), Katia Genel (Editor), Genel Katia (Editor)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2017
• EAN: 9780231177177
• ISBN: 978-0-231-17717-7
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: New Directions in Critical Theory; New Directions in Critical The; New Directions in Critical Theory; New Directions in Critical Theory (COL)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, Philosophy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Essays, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Critical Theory, social and political philosophy, Western philosophy from c 1800, Society and culture: general