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This is a penetrating reinterpretation and defense of Hegel's
social theory as an alternative to reigning liberal notions of
social justice. The eminent German philosopher Axel Honneth rereads
Hegel's Philosophy of Right to show how it diagnoses the
pathologies of the overcommitment to individual freedom that
Honneth says underlies the ideas of Rawls and Habermas alike.
Honneth argues that Hegel's theory contains an account of the
psychological damage caused by placing too much emphasis on
personal and moral freedom. Although these freedoms are crucial to
the achievement of justice, they are insufficient and in themselves
leave people vulnerable to loneliness, emptiness, and depression.
Hegel argues that people must also find their freedom or
"self-realization" through shared projects. Such projects involve
the three institutions of ethical life--family, civil society, and
the state--and provide the arena of a crucial third kind of
freedom, which Honneth calls "communicative" freedom. A society is
just only if it gives all of its members sufficient and equal
opportunity to realize communicative freedom as well as personal
and moral freedom.
This is a penetrating reinterpretation and defense of Hegel's
social theory as an alternative to reigning liberal notions of
social justice. The eminent German philosopher Axel Honneth rereads
Hegel's "Philosophy of Right" to show how it diagnoses the
pathologies of the overcommitment to individual freedom that
Honneth says underlies the ideas of Rawls and Habermas alike.
Honneth argues that Hegel's theory contains an account of the
psychological damage caused by placing too much emphasis on
personal and moral freedom. Although these freedoms are crucial to
the achievement of justice, they are insufficient and in themselves
leave people vulnerable to loneliness, emptiness, and depression.
Hegel argues that people must also find their freedom or
"self-realization" through shared projects. Such projects involve
the three institutions of ethical life--family, civil society, and
the state--and provide the arena of a crucial third kind of
freedom, which Honneth calls "communicative" freedom. A society is
just only if it gives all of its members sufficient and equal
opportunity to realize communicative freedom as well as personal
and moral freedom.
Otto Weininger s controversial book Sex and Character, first
published in Vienna in 1903, is a prime example of the conflicting
discourses central to its time: antisemitism, scientific racism and
biologism, misogyny, the cult and crisis of masculinity,
psychological introspection versus empiricism, German idealism, the
women s movement and the idea of human emancipation, the quest for
sexual liberation, and the debates about homosexuality. Combining
rational reasoning with irrational outbursts, in the context of
today s scholarship, Sex and Character speaks to issues of gender,
race, cultural identity, the roots of Nazism, and the intellectual
history of modernism and modern European culture. This new
translation presents, for the first time, the entire text,
including Weininger s extensive appendix with amplifications of the
text and bibliographical references, in a reliable English
translation, together with a substantial introduction that places
the book in its cultural and historical context."
Nine Suitcases was originally published in Haladas in weekly
instalments. The first instalment appeared on 30 May 1946, and the
last on 27 February 1947. Concentrating on his experiences in the
ghetto of Nagyvarad and as a forced labourer in the Ukraine, Zsolt
provides not only a rare insight into Hungarian fascism, but a
shocking exposure of the cruelty, indifference, selfishness,
cowardice and betrayal of which human beings - the victims no less
than the perpetrators - are capable in extreme circumstances. Apart
from being one of the earliest writers on the Holocaust, Zsolt is
also one of the most powerful: he bears comparison with Primo Levi,
Elie Wiesel or Imre Kertesz. accomplished novelist and a highly
skilled journalist. He reports and analysizes the appalling events,
almost immediately after they occurred, with exceptional freshness
and a devastating blend of angry despair and cool detachment. For
all the brilliant imaginative qualities of the writing, the crucial
facts are authentic. Zsolt was spared Auschwitz, but he witnessed,
or suffered, some of the worst atrocities of the Holocaust
elsewhere. Set in a very dark period of modern European history,
interspersed with moments of grotesque farce, grim irony and
occasional memories of human kindness, his nightmarish but
meticulously realistic chronicle of smaller and larger crimes
against humanity is as riveting as it is horrifying.
Nietzsche's unpublished notes are extraordinary in both volume and
interest, and indispensable to a full understanding of his lifelong
engagement with the fundamental questions of philosophy. This
volume includes an extensive selection of the notes he kept during
the early years of his career. They address the philosophy of
Schopenhauer, the nature of tragedy, the relationship of language
to music, the importance of Classical Greek culture for modern
life, and the value of the unfettered pursuit of truth and
knowledge which Nietzsche thought was a central feature of western
culture since it was first introduced by Plato. They contain
startling and original answers to the questions which were to
occupy Nietzsche throughout his life and demonstrate the remarkable
stability and consistency of his fundamental concerns. They are
presented here in a new translation by Landislaus Lob, and an
introduction by Alexander Nehamas sets them in their philosophical
and historical contexts."
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