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

Bert van den Brink

ISBN 10: 052118438X / ISBN 13: 9780521184380

Edité par Cambridge University Press 2010-12-23, 2010

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• Titre: Recognition and Power: Axel Honneth and the Tradition of Critical Social Theory
• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press 2010-12-23
• Date de parution: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 052118438X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780521184380
• Reliure: Paperback
• État de l'article: New

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The topic of recognition has come to occupy a central place in debates in social and political theory. Developed by George Herbert Mead and Charles Taylor, it has been given expression in the 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 2007 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; 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.