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Recognition

Axel Honneth

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The idea that we are mutually dependent on the recognition of our peers is at least as old as modernity. Across Europe, this idea has been understood in different ways from the very beginning, according to each country's different cultural and political conditions. This stimulating study explores the complex history and multiple associations of the idea of 'Recognition' in Britain, France and Germany. Demonstrating the role of 'recognition' in the production of important political ideas, Axel Honneth explores how our dependence on the recognition of others is sometimes viewed as the source of all modern, egalitarian morality, sometimes as a means for fostering socially beneficial behavior, and sometimes as a threat to 'true' individuality. By exploring this fundamental concept in our modern political and social self-understanding, Honneth thus offers an alternative view of the philosophical discourse of modernity.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Publish Date: Nov 26th, 2020
  • Pages: 192
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.44in - 5.56in - 0.40in - 0.50lb
  • EAN: 9781108819305
  • Categories: • History & Theory - General

About the Author

Honneth, Axel: - Axel Honneth is the Jack C. Weinstein Professor of the Humanities in the Philosophy Department at Columbia University. He was previously Director of the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt, between 2001 and 2018, founded by Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno. He is the author of works in German and English, including The Struggle for Recognition (1994) and Freedom's Right: The Social Foundations of Democratic Life (2014).

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The New York Review of Books
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""Recognition" ... is not so much an original statement or an advance in his philosophical arguments as an accessible introduction to the themes that have preoccupied him throughout his career. Here Honneth adopts a more modest approach as a historian of ideas"

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Mark Storm
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Helping people in leadership positions flourish — with wisdom and clarity of thought

In Search of Recognition — “The philosopher Axel Honneth argues that the act of recognizing one another forms the scaffolding of our personal and social world.” @nybooks (by Peter E. Gordon) https://t.co/2sR1CzGG3X

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Writer, Historian, Appetite. Author of Ways of Eating (UC Press, 2023), Meat Planet (UC Press, 2019), Thinking in Public (Penn, 2016) & other light works.

In this review of Axel Honneth's "Recognition," Peter Gordon considers recognition as a central feature, and problem, of social life - part of Gordon's continued attention to the work of the Frankfurt School: https://t.co/anFs3fX2yI

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What people are saying

Mentioner image for: The New York Review of Books
The New York Review of Books
2 years

""Recognition" ... is not so much an original statement or an advance in his philosophical arguments as an accessible introduction to the themes that have preoccupied him throughout his career. Here Honneth adopts a more modest approach as a historian of ideas"

nybooks.com
Mentioner image for: Mark Storm
Mark Storm
@marksstorm
2 years

Helping people in leadership positions flourish — with wisdom and clarity of thought

In Search of Recognition — “The philosopher Axel Honneth argues that the act of recognizing one another forms the scaffolding of our personal and social world.” @nybooks (by Peter E. Gordon) https://t.co/2sR1CzGG3X

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