The I in We
Studies in the Theory of Recognition

Axel Honneth (Author)

9780745652320, Polity Press

Hardback, published 7 September 2012

240 pages
23.6 x 16 x 2.7 cm, 0.54 kg

Der Sozialphilosoph Axel Honneth erläutert in seinem neuen Buch seine Theorie der Anerkennung und zeigt, wie sich damit die Vorstellung von Gerechtigkeit neu ausrichten und die Beziehung zwischen sozialer Reproduktion und Entwicklung einer eigenen Identität untersuchen lässt.

Preface
I. Hegelian Roots
From Desire to Recognition: Hegel's Grounding of Self-Consciousness
The Realm of Actualized Freedom: Hegel's Notion of a "Philosophy of Right"
II. Systematic Consequences
The Fabric of Justice: On the Limits of Contemporary Proceduralism
Labour and Recognition: A Redefinition
Recognition as Ideology: The Connection between Morality and Power
Dissolutions of the Social: The Social Theory of Luc Boltanski and Laurent Thévenot
Philosophy as Social Research: David Miller's Theory of Justice
III. Social and Theoretical Applications
Recognition between States: On the Moral Substrate of
International Relations
Organized Self-Realisation: Paradoxes of Individualisation
Paradoxes of Capitalist Modernisation: A Research Programme (with Martin Hartmann)
IV. Psychoanalytical Ramifications
The Work of Negativity: A Recognition-Theoretical
Revision of Psychoanalysis
The I in the We: Recognition as a Driving Force of Group Formation
Facets of the Presocial Self: A Rejoinder to Joel Whitebook
Disempowering Reality: Secular Forms of Consolation

Subject Areas: Philosophy [HP]