Axel Honneth and the Critical Theory of Recognition

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Schmitz, Volker (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Political Philosophy and Public Purpose,
• Subjects: Political theory.; Democracy.; Political philosophy.; Political economy.; Critical theory.; Social sciences-Philosophy.; Political Theory.; Political Philosophy.; International Political Economy.; Critical Theory.; Social Theory.

The critical theory of the Frankfurt School has undergone numerous and at times fundamental changes over the last ninety years. Since the late 1960s, it has been characterized primarily by Jürgen Habermas's "communicative turn" and a focus on normative foundations. Today, that "...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Reciprocity and Self-Restriction in Elementary Recognition
• 3. Reifying Reification: A Critique of Axel Honneth's Theory of Reification
• 4. The Recognition of No-Body
• 5. Bourgeois Illusions: Honneth on the Ruling Ideas of Capitalist Societies
• 6. Losing Sight of Power: The Inadequacy of Axel Honneth's Theory of the Market and Democracy
• 7. Axel Honneth and the Tradition of Radical Reformism
• 8. Can Honneth's Theory Account for a Critique of Instrumental Reason? Capitalism and the Pathologies of Negative Freedom
• 9. Critical Theory Derailed: Paradigm Fetishism and Critical Liberalism in Honneth (and Habermas)
• 10. The Failure of the Recognition Paradigm in Critical Theory
• 11. The Mirror of Transformation: Recognition and Its Dimensions after Honneth.