Axel Honneth
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Axel Honneth (born 1949) is a professor at the Institut für Sozialforschung (Institute for Social Research) in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany (the so-called Frankfurt School).
He was born in Essen, and studied in Bonn, Bochum, Berlin and Munich (under Jürgen Habermas) before moving to Frankfurt.
One of Honneth's core beliefs is that all grievances regarding the distribution of goods in society can be reduced to struggles for recognition. Recognition is then Honneth's anthropological axiom.
His main work is The Struggle for Recognition: Moral Grammar of Social Conflicts (1996), Polity Press. The recognition concept is derived mainly from G.W.F. Hegel's early social philosophical works, but is supplemented by Mead's social psychology and Winnicott's object relation theory. Honneth's mix of these is the offset for his critical theory.
He also co-authored "Recognition or Redistribution?" with feminist philosopher Nancy Fraser in 2003.
Honneth has written for Constellations.
[edit] Major works in English
1988 Social Action and Human Nature, co-authored with Hans Joas.
1991 The Critique of Power: Reflective Stages in a Critical Social Theory.
1995 The Fragmented World of the Social: Essays in Social and Political Philosophy.
1996 The Struggle for Recognition: The Moral Grammar of Social Conflicts.
2003 Redistribution or Recognition?: A Political-Philosophical Exchange, co-authored with Nancy Frasier
2005 Reification: A Recognition-Theoretical View.
2007 Morality of Recognition.
[edit] External links
- Tanner Lecture on Reification, 2005
- 2006 Program of Research: Paradoxes of Capitalist Modernization
- Joel Anderson's Introduction to The Struggle for Recognition.
[edit] See also
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