Axel Honneth and the critical theory of recognition / Volker Schmitz, editor.

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 "s...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Other Authors: Schmitz, Volker (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]
Series:Political philosophy and public purpose.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: Answers to Axel Honneth / Volker Schmitz
  • 2. Reciprocity and Self-Restriction in Elementary Recognition / J. C. Berendzen
  • 3. Reifying Reification: A Critique of Axel Honneth's Theory of Reification / Konstantinos Kavoulakos
  • 4. The Recognition of No-Body / Lauren Langman
  • 5. Bourgeois Illusions: Honneth on the Ruling Ideas of Capitalist Societies / David A. Borman
  • 6. Losing Sight of Power: The Inadequacy of Axel Honneth's Theory of the Market and Democracy / Gregory R. Smulewicz-Zucker
  • 7. Axel Honneth and the Tradition of Radical Reformism / Volker Schmitz
  • 8. Can Honneth's Theory Account for a Critique of Instrumental Reason? Capitalism and the Pathologies of Negative Freedom / Mariana Teixeira
  • 9. Critical Theory Derailed: Paradigm Fetishism and Critical Liberalism in Honneth (and Habermas) / Harry F. Dahms
  • 10. The Failure of the Recognition Paradigm in Critical Theory / Michael J. Thompson
  • 11. The Mirror of Transformation: Recognition and Its Dimensions After Honneth / James E. Block.