Recognition and Power : Axel Honneth and the Tradition of Critical Social Theory

Bert Van Den Brink

ISBN 10: 0521864453 / ISBN 13: 9780521864459

Edité par Cambridge University Press, 2007

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - The topic of recognition has come to occupy a central place in contemporary debates in social and political theory. Developed by George Herbert Mead and Charles Taylor, it has been given renewed expression in the recent program for Critical Theory developed by Axel Honneth in his book The Struggle for Recognition. Honneth's research program offers an empirically insightful way of reflecting on emancipatory struggles for greater justice and a powerful theoretical tool for generating a conception of justice and the good that enables the normative evaluation of such struggles. This volume offers a critical clarification and evaluation of this research program, particularly its relationship to the other major development in critical social and political theory over recent years, namely, the focus on power as formative of practical identities (or forms of subjectivity) proposed by Michel Foucault and developed by theorists such as Judith Butler, James Tully, and Iris Marion Young.

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• Titre: Recognition and Power : Axel Honneth and the Tradition of Critical Social Theory
• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date de parution: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0521864453
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780521864459
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 235 L x 157 H x 29 P (en millimètres) 235 millimètres de largeur par 157 millimètres de hauteur par 29 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 823 grammes

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This 2007 volume offers a critical evaluation of the research program for Critical Theory developed by Honneth in his book The Struggle for Recognition.

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Bert van den Brink is Associate Professor of Political and Social Philosophy at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. He is the author of The Tragedy of Liberalism, co-editor of Reasons of One's Own, and author of many articles and book chapters on liberalism, democratic conflict and civility, and critical social theory. David Owen is professor of social and political philosophy and deputy director of the Centre for Philosophy and Value at the University of Southampton. He is the author of Maturity and Modernity, Nietzsche, Politics and Modernity, and Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality. He has published articles and book chapters on a variety of topics in moral, social, and political philosophy.