Axel Honneth has been instrumental in advancing the work of the
Frankfurt School of critical theorists, rebuilding their effort to
combine radical social and political analysis with rigorous
philosophical inquiry. These eleven essays reclaim the relevant
themes of the Frankfurt School, which counted Theodor W. Adorno,
Max Horkheimer, Walter Benjamin, Jürgen Habermas, Franz Neumann,
and Albrecht Wellmer as members. They also engage with Kant, Freud,
Alexander Mitscherlich, and Michael Walzer, whose work on morality,
history, democracy, and individuality intersects with the Frankfurt
School's core concerns. Collected here for the first time in
English, Honneth's essays pursue the unifying themes and theses
that support the methodologies and thematics of critical social
theory, and they address the possibilities of continuing this
tradition through radically changed theoretical and social
conditions. According to Honneth, there is a unity that underlies
critical theory's multiple approaches: the way in which reason is
both distorted and furthered in contemporary capitalist society.
And while much is dead in the social and psychological doctrines of
critical social theory, its central inquiries remain vitally
relevant. Is social progress still possible after the horrors of
the twentieth century? Does capitalism deform reason and, if so, in
what respects? Can we justify the relationship between law and
violence in secular terms, or is it inextricably bound to divine
justice? How can we be free when we're subject to socialization in
a highly complex and in many respects unfree society? For Honneth,
suffering and moral struggle are departure points for a new
"reconstructive" form of social criticism, one that is based
solidly in the empirically grounded, interdisciplinary approach of
the Frankfurt School.
General
| Imprint: |
Columbia University Press
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| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
New Directions in Critical Theory, 23 |
| Release date: |
August 2023 |
| Authors: |
Axel Honneth
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| Translators: |
James Ingram
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| Pages: |
236 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-231-14627-2 |
| Categories: |
Books
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| LSN: |
0-231-14627-2 |
| Barcode: |
9780231146272 |
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