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The Idea of Socialism (Paperback)
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The Idea of Socialism (Paperback)
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The idea of socialism has given normative grounding and orientation
to the outrage over capitalism for more than 150 years, and yet
today it seems to have lost much of its appeal. Despite growing
discontent, many would hesitate to invoke socialism when it comes
to envisioning life beyond capitalism. How can we explain the rapid
decline of this once powerful idea? And what must we do to renew it
for the twenty-first century? In this lucid,
political-philosophical essay, Axel Honneth argues that the idea of
socialism has lost its luster because its theoretical assumptions
stem from the industrial era and are no longer convincing in our
contemporary post-industrial societies. Only if we manage to
replace these assumptions with a concept of history and society
that corresponds to our current experiences will we be able to
restore confidence in a project whose fundamental idea remains as
relevant today as it was a century ago - the idea of an economy
that realizes freedom in solidarity. The Idea of Socialism was
awarded the Bruno Kreisky Prize for the Political Book of 2015.
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