A Honneth
Biographic Data
| ID | 37579 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Honneth |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Honneth |
| SIGNATURE | HONNETH A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Goethe University Frankfurt |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9753-1128 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 143 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1197 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 139 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 15 |
A invisibilidade social como desrespeito na teoria do reconhecimento de Axel Honneth
Axel Honneth propõe uma reformulação epistemológica da teoria do reconhecimento a partir da análise da invisibilidade social, inspirada no romance O Homem Invisível de Ralph Ellison. Para Honneth, a invisibilidade não remete à ausência perceptiva literal, mas a uma forma simbólica de desrespeito: o ato de “olhar através” do outro nega-lhe reconhecimento como sujeito moral e social válido. Essa experiência constitui-se numa violência silenciosa qu…
Représenter les sans-pouvoir
The Fate of Creative Ideas
This paper explores Max Weber’s reasons for claiming that morally exemplary ideas with some regularity produce the unwanted result of highly dubious ethical consequences. The diagnosis of such “normative paradoxes” is Weber’s attempt to refute the optimistic philosophies of history with their own tools. If the philosophy of the Enlightenment assumed that bold, progressive ideas could steer the world toward improvement, Weber sought to demonstrate…
The Task of Critique is to Question the Ontological Premises of our Identity”. An Interview with Axel Honneth
Axel Honneth is internationally renowned for being one of the leading political and social philosophers of our time, and is highly regarded for his work on recognition and the struggles for recognition. In this interview, he discusses his work over the past four decades, starting from the rise of his intellectual vocation to his most recent book on the sovereignty of work. The text is a transcript, revised by the author, of the dialogue Honneth h…
Existe um interesse emancipatório do conhecimento? Tentativa de responder a uma questão chave da Teoria Crítica
No texto a seguir, Axel Honneth se pergunta se, em conformidade com os postulados da Teoria Crítica, existe um interesse emancipatório do conhecimento. Para responder à questão, o autor passa em revista o projeto de uma teoria crítica, desde sua origem no hegelianismo de esquerda até a formulação de uma teoria do conhecimento emancipatório, no livro Conhecimento e interesse, de Jürgen Habermas. A seguir, Honneth explora quatro alternativas que re…
Por uma sociologia política do trabalho
Neste artigo apresentamos nossa tradução e introdução crítica ao texto "Democracia e divisão do trabalho social: mais um capítulo negligenciado da filosofia política" em que Axel Honneth apresenta a tese de que a divisão do trabalho social possui íntima relação com a distribuição de chances de participação política e, afinal, com a qualidade da democracia em sociedades modernas. Partindo da constatação de que a teoria política contemporânea raram…
De la critique face à l'histoire
L’article se présente comme un guide méthodologique ouvert pour promouvoir l’ethnographie collective des méga-conférences internationales. Il se divise en quatre parties. La première explore l’importance renouvelée des mega-events sur la scène internationale (type COP21, sommets du G20, conférences de l’ONU, etc.) et les défis méthodologiques spécifiques qu’ils posent aux chercheurs de sciences sociales. La seconde revient sur les généalogies int…
Agire sociale e natura umana
Nel 1980 Axel Honneth e Hans Joas pubblicano a quattro mani Soziales Handeln und menschliche Natur, un’opera di antropologia filosofica. Sulla scia dei movimenti femministi, ecologisti e controculturali, i due autori sfidano i consueti timori verso una ripresa del concetto di natura umana e riportano al centro del dibattito delle scienze sociali l’urgenza di ripensare l’essere umano alla luce della sua appartenenza alla natura e della sua relazio…
Democracy and Fair Labor Conditions
The Institute for Social Research at 100
Dick Bernstein as a public philosopher
If one begins to ask oneself, how Dick Bernstein might have understood the task of philosophy, it quickly becomes apparent that he must have conceived of it as a “public good.” From early on, he was clearly convinced that teaching and writing within his discipline serve, in one way or another, to promote the welfare and flourishing of one's own society, if not humanity as such. But when one digs deeper and tries to answer the question how exactly…
The Institute for Social Research on its 100th birthday. A former director's perspective
Rejoinder to my critics
To respond to my critics I concentrate on three systematic problems they have brought up in their articles: First, there are repeated concerns that my proposal for determining what we should regard as social labor may be too narrow, too conventionalist, or simply misleading (I); second, a number of contributions raise the question of whether I am right to discard the idea of 'alienated' or 'meaningless' labor as the standard of critique of contem…
The Working Sovereign
In the summer of 2021, Axel Honneth was invited by the Centre for Social Critique Berlin to give the Walter Benjamin Lectures. The lectures have now been published in German under the title Der arbeitende Souverän ( The Working Sovereign). In a conversation with the directors of the Centre for Social Critique, Rahel Jaeggi and Robin Celikates, Axel Honneth explains why he believes a political theory of labor is necessary, how the world of work ha…
Teoría del reconocimiento como teoría crítica de la sociedad? Entrevista a Axel Honneth
La entrevista al Prof. Dr. Axel Honneth del Instituto de Investigación Social de Fráncfort del Meno fue realizada por Nico Bobka y Sina Knoll para la Revista Soziologiemagazin el 21 de agosto de 2012 en Fráncfort, Alemania
Reality or Appearance of Ethical Life
The article attempts to show that Hegel’s concept of “civil society” is characterized by a deep ambivalence about the value of the new market economy. On the one side, Hegel believed that the economic system represented by “civil society” succeeded like no other in simultaneously giving free reign to the desires of individual subjects and integrating them into a stable structural framework (I). On the other side, Hegel’s reflections are growingly…
‘Labour’, A Brief History of a Modern Concept
As has often been observed, neither the thinkers of antiquity nor those of the Middle Ages exhibited a great theoretical interest in the social value or even the ethical significance of labour. Throughout this long period of history, the labour an individual had to carry out to make a living, and thus under compulsion, was understood more or less solely as a heavy burden. It signified daily toil and the state of personal dependency attaching to a…
L'autre de la justice
International audience
Secular Reason? A Minor Query about a Major Work
This article asks what it means to claim that secular reason is "postmetaphysical" and differentiates among understandings of that notion in Jürgen Habermas's work. The article considers what secular reason would have to achieve to make good on the claim that it still can provide us with such a comprehensive understanding or worldview. From a theoretical standpoint, we should explore how reality has to be understood for us to understand self and …
Reply to Darwall
“You” or “We”
The following paper questions the idea behind Stephen Darwall's attempt to ground all moral obligations in a perspective that he calls “second‐personal.” In a first step, I will reconstruct Darwall's argument with the aim of raising doubt over whether the moral norms that supposedly govern interpersonal interactions in fact result from their reference to a “you,” as he claims, rather than from a reference to a collectively implied “we”, as I shal…
Hegel and Durkheim
Recognition Across French-German Divides
In his recent book, Recognition: A Chapter in the History of European ideas (2021), Honneth has explained how he understands the French concept of recognition. This article places Honneth's latest interpretation in the context of his long-standing and evolving engagement with French theory over several decades. Honneth acknowledges his significant debt to a French tendency to view recognition as a problem for self-realisation (and not an opportun…
Demoralizing Recognition
Personal Identity and Disrespect
Inherent in our everyday use of language is a sense that human integrity owes its existence, at a deep level, to the patterns of approval and recognition that we have been attempting to distinguish. For up to the present day, in the self-descriptions of those who see themselves as having been wrongly treated by others, the moral categories that play a dominant role are those-such as &s;insult&s; or &s;humiliation&s;-that refer to forms of disresp…
Reification
This work examines whether the concept of reification, largely abandoned by the end of the 20th century, can inspire 21st century political theory. Axel Honneth, the leader of the Frankfurt School's third generation, draws on his theory of recognition and then responds to three critics - Judith Butler Raymond Geuss and Jonathan Lear
Integrity and Disrespect
Organized Self-Realization
Despite the fact that the sociological notion 'individualization' contains the most heterogeneous phenomena, the article develops an interpretation of the fate of individualization in Western capitalism today. After having differentiated three different meanings of that notion with the help of Georg Simmel, the position is defended that the claims to individual self-realization, which have rapidly multiplied in the Western societies of thirty or …
Recognition and Justice
In this article, Axel Honneth outlines a plural theory of justice. In developing his argument he takes his departure not in the classic elimination of 'inequality', but in the avoidance of 'humiliation' or 'disrespect'. He is convinced that an appropriate point of departure for a recognition-theoretical conception of justice must show that the experience of social injustice is always measured in terms of the withholding of some recognition held t…
Recognition or Redistribution
Dans cet article, l'A tente de comprendre le changement normatif opere entre ideal de redistribution des richesses, et le besoin de reconnaissance individuel, base selon lui sur une desillusion profonde des individus. Il tente de clarifier la notion et rapelle les theories hegeliennes de la reconnaissance reciproque
Paradoxes of Capitalism
Democracy as Reflexive Cooperation
Au-dela de l'opposition entre le republicanisme et le proceduralisme comme reponses au liberalisme politique, l'A. montre que la theorie de la democratie developpee par Dewey constitue une troisieme voie dans le debat actuel sur les modeles democratiques, proposant une synthese des deux positions fondee sur la combinaison des procedures reflexives et de la communaute politique au sein de la sphere de la cooperation sociale. Examinant les notions …
The Fragmented World of Symbolic Forms
Dissolutions of the Social
Invisibilité
Le développement des médias de communication modernes est allé de pair avec une montée de l'interaction médiatisée qui, par rapport à l'interaction de face-à-face, se libère des contraintes de la co-présence. Une théorie interactionnelle de la communication permet de comprendre la genèse et la portée de la « nouvelle visibilité » qui accompagne ce processus. Parce qu'elle transforme profondément les modalités de l'apparition publique, la « nouvel…
The Possibility of a Disclosing Critique of Society
La théorie de la reconnaissance
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The Struggle for Symbolic Order an Interview with Pierre Bourdieu
The Diseases of Society
Though the idea of "social pathologies" or "diseases" of a whole society has been quite common since Rousseau`s Second Discourse and especially prominent within the tradition of critical theory, it is not really clear who precisely is proposed to have fallen ill here in the first place. Is it only some sufficient number of individual persons, is it the collective understood as a macro-subject, or is it the "society" itself as having been encroach…
Trabalho e reconhecimento
The main question in this article is: how the category social work should be included in the framework of a social theory to open an inside perspective of qualitative improvement that is not utopian? To take account of this complex problem, the author suggests in a first more methodological step a distinction between foreign and immanent criticism for a critic of existing labour relations. In a second step, the author argues that social work can …
The Dialectics of Rationalization
Axel Honneth, Eberhard Knödler-Bunte and Arno Widmann
O eu no nós
Neste texto, analisam-se o conceito de grupo e suas manifestações, buscando contrapor às perspectivas categoriais da psicanálise e da teoria sociológica, consideradas incompletas em razão de estilizações unilaterais que impedem uma conexão conceitual básica entre as duas disciplinas, uma terminologia que, de partida, seja neutra frente às alternativas positiva e negativa de inserção do eu no grupo. Para tanto, o grupo, independentemente de seu ta…
The Irreducibility of Progress
In the last thirty years of his life Kant was preoccupied with the question of whether or not the "signs of progress" could be elicited from the vale of tears of the historical process. In what follows I am interested in the question of what kind of meaning Kant's historico-philosophical hypothesis of progress can have for us today. In order to provide an answer to this question, I make a distinction between system-conforming and system-bursting,…
El reconocimiento como ideología
El presente artículo se ocupa del problema de si existen formas de reconocimiento moral y social caracterizables como ideológicas, analizando qué propiedades de tales modos de reconocimiento justifican tal calificación. Pretende, además, articular un criterio que permita dirimir normativamente entre formas ideológicas y no ideológicas de reconocimiento. Este criterio será puesto a prueba en el análisis crítico de discursos actuales que reivindica…
Social Action and Human Nature
Visibilité et invisibilité. Sur l'épistémologie de la « reconnaissance
A textura da justiça
O texto tenta, num primeiro passo, mostrar que a textura intrínseca da justiça não consiste em bens distribuíveis, mas em relações sociais comumente aceitas que são constituídas por práticas perpassadas de conteúdo moral. Nessas práticas podem ser encontradas aquelas que definem o que significa tratar uma outra pessoa de forma razoável ou justa. Se este ponto de partida é convincente, então algumas consequências metodológicas sobre o conceito de …
A Physiognomy of the Capitalist Form of Life
The Institute for Social Research at 100
Brutalization of the social conflict
In several of his analyses, Talcott Parsons describes the establishment of modern societies as a differentiation process across spheres of mutual recognition. In this paper, I use Parsons’ social theory of recognition to examine features of recent social conflicts. I begin with Parsons’ description of the struggles for recognition that took place during his lifetime in the highly industrialized societies of the West (I). I then use Parsons’ view …
Communication and Reconciliation Habermas' Critique of Adorno
At the time of Adorno's death, Habermas pointed out a methodological bareness in Adorno's work. According to him, Adorno's theoretical veil no longer clothed the methodological skeleton. If one separates content from imagery, Habermas' comment signals a theoretical turn in critical theory from Adorno to Habermas. This is clear in their totally divergent forms of presentation, and especially regarding controversial relations to the tradition. This…
The Dialectics of Rationalization
Axel Honneth, Eberhard Knödler-Bunte and Arno Widmann
Work and Instrumental Action
In recent discussions of historical materialism, the relationship of Marx's critique of political economy to a critical social theory directed toward political action has come into question. The thesis that there is a in the theory of indicates that the analysis of capital, the centerpiece of Marx's theoretical project, can no longer retain such a leading role in the determination of a critical social theory capable of offering a Praxis-oriented …
Work and Instrumental Action
Strange Encounter with a Familiar Ghost
A ghost is haunting North America — the ghost of the European peace movement. But not only have all the ruling powers of the US united in a holy alliance against the ghost of “neutralism;” even in some corners of the academic Left — including the editing rooms of Telos — horror is spreading: are not mass demonstrations in all major Western European cities against the installation of American Pershings simply trail-blazers for Soviet expansionism?…
An Aversion against the Universal. A Commentary on Lyotard's Postmodern Condition
Die Frankfurter Schule und die Folgen
Foucault, Marxism and Critique. Barry Smart
Foucault and Adorno
Rescuing the Revolution with an Ontology
The Fragmented World of Symbolic Forms
The Struggle for Symbolic Order an Interview with Pierre Bourdieu
Enlightenment and Rationality
Atomism and Ethical Life
Kritik der Macht
A Structuralist Rousseau
Éthique du discours et concept implicite de la justice
L'action communicative (Apel, Habermas) implique des principes de justice qui ne sont pas simplement distributifs, mais qui satisfont aux conditions materielles et culturelles de la participation libre et egale de chacun a l'ordre discursif
Domination and Moral Struggle
Social Action and Human Nature
Social Action and Human Nature
This work applies itself to a critique of Marxian theory, which is especially sensitive to issues in the new social movements, ecological and feminist. The work of writers such as Gehlen and Plessner, and that of three historical anthropologists is discussed
Integrity and Disrespect
"Communicative Action, Essays on Jurgen Habermas's "The Theory of Communicative Action
Pluralization and Recognition
Cultural-Political Interventions in the Unfinished Project of Enlightenment
Part 1 Critical theory and political practice: domination or emancipation? the debate over the heritage of critical theory, Helmut Dubiel disorder is possible - an essay on systems, laws, and disobedience, Gunter Frankenberg autonomy, modernity, and community - communitarianism and critical social theory in dialogue, Seyla Benhabib. Part 2 The sociology of political culture: bindings, shackles, brakes - on self-limitation, Claus Offe politics and…
The Cambridge Companion to Habermas
Jurgen Habermas is unquestionably one of the foremost philosophers writing today. His notions of communicative action and rationality have exerted a profound influence within philosophy and the social sciences. This volume examines the historical and intellectual contexts out of which Habermas' work emerged, and offers an overview of his main ideas, including those in his most recent publication. Amongst the topics discussed are his relationship …
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