Recognition and Power

Axel Honneth and the Tradition of Critical Social Theory

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ID19942205
AuthorsBert Van Den Brink (Utrecht University), D Owens (0000-0002-8865-6332, University of Southampton), David Owen (0000-0002-4028-0591)
Year2007
Pages399
Publication date2007-04-09
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueRecognition and Power (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9780511498732
OpenAlexW4246724237
Open LibraryOL20403837M
ISBN9780511498732
LanguageEN
Citations received47

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

Art history · Critical theory · Economic Justice · Epistemology · Formative assessment · George (robot) · Normative · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Sociology · Subjectivity · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · History · Law · Philosophy · 1949 · Axel Honneth (1949-) · Honneth, Axel · Power (Philosophy) · Recognition (Philosophy) · Recognition (Psychology)

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