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Axel Honneth (/ˈhɒnɪt, -ɛt/; German: [aksl̩ ˈhɔnɛt]; born 18 July 1949) is a German philosopher who is the Professor for Social PhilosophyatGoethe University Frankfurt[4] and the Jack B. Weinstein Professor of the Humanities in the department of philosophyatColumbia University.[5] He was also director of the Institut für Sozialforschung (Institute for Social Research) in Frankfurt am Main, Germany between 2001 and 2018.

Axel Honneth
Honneth in 2016
Born (1949-07-18) 18 July 1949 (age 74)
Alma mater
  • Ruhr University Bochum
  • Free University of Berlin
  • EraContemporary philosophy
    RegionWestern philosophy
    School
  • Frankfurt School
  • Neopragmatism
  • Institutions
  • Goethe University Frankfurt
  • Columbia University
  • Doctoral students
  • Rahel Jaeggi
  • Hartmut Rosa
  • Harald Lemke [de][3]
  • Main interests

  • Social philosophy
  • Moral philosophy
  • Critical theory
  • Recognition
  • Biography

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    Honneth was born in Essen, West Germany on 18 July 1949, studied in Bonn, Bochum, Berlin and Munich (under Jürgen Habermas), and taught at the Free University of Berlin and the New School before moving to the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University of Frankfurt in 1996. He also held the Spinoza Chair of Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam in 1999.[6] Between 2001 and 2018 he was director of the Institute for Social Research, originally home to the so-called Frankfurt School, at the University of Frankfurt.[7] Since 2011, he is also Jack B. Weinstein Professor of the Humanities at the department of philosophy at Columbia University in the City of New York.[8]

    Research

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    Honneth's work focuses on social-political and moral philosophy, especially relations of power, recognition, and respect. One of his core arguments is for the priority of intersubjective relationships of recognition in understanding social relations. This includes non- and mis-recognition as a basis of social and interpersonal conflict. For instance, grievances regarding the distribution of goods in society are ultimately struggles for recognition justice.

    His first main work The Critique of Power: Reflective Stages in a Critical Social Theory explores the affinities between the Frankfurt School and Michel Foucault. In his second main work The Struggle for Recognition: Moral Grammar of Social Conflicts, the recognition concept is derived mainly from G. W. F. Hegel's early social philosophical works, but is supplemented by George Herbert Mead's social psychology, Jürgen Habermas' communicative ethics, and Donald Winnicott's object relations theory. Honneth's critical adaptation of these is the basis of his critical social theory, which attempts to remedy the deficits of previous approaches. In 2003, Honneth co-authored Recognition or Redistribution? with the feminist philosopher Nancy Fraser, who criticizes the priority of ethical categories such as recognition over structural social-political categories such as redistribution in Honneth's thought. His recent work Reification reformulates this key "Western Marxist" concept in terms of intersubjective relations of recognition and power. For Honneth, all forms of reification are due to intersubjectively based pathologies rather than the structural character of social systems such as capitalism as argued by Karl Marx and György Lukács.

    InThe Idea of Socialism, Honneth calls for a revision of socialist theory in order to make it relevant for the 21st century, based on a criticism of the socialist theory of historical materialism, ignorance of political rights and social differentiation in modern societies, and overemphasis on the working class as a revolutionary subject. In order to fully realize the three principles of the French Revolution, Honneth suggests three revisions: Replacing economic determinism with historical experimentation inspired by John Dewey, expanding social freedom – mutual dependence and cooperation among members of society – to the other spheres of modern society (i.e. the political and the private), as well as addressing all citizens of the democratic sphere.

    Works translated into English

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    See also

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    References

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    1. ^ "Authors - PublicSpace".
  • ^ "Journalism, human rights and moral rectitude: Letters from a war zone". 14 August 2010.
  • ^ "Einstein Forum – Wissen essen oder die Weisheit eines guten Geschmacks".
  • ^ "Goethe-Universität —".
  • ^ "Axel Honneth | Philosophy".
  • ^ uva.nl
  • ^ "Axel Honneth | Institut für Sozioalforschung (IfS), Frankfurt (Main)". Archived from the original on 29 October 2013. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
  • ^ "Axel Honneth | Department of Philosophy - Columbia University". Archived from the original on 15 April 2012. Retrieved 6 March 2012.
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