The Working Sovereign

Autorentext

Axel Honneth is Jack B. Weinstein Professor of the Humanities at the Department of Philosophy of Columbia University.

Inhalt

Preliminary Remarks
I. Normative Beginnings: Labour in Democratic Society

1. Three Resources for a Critique of Contemporary Labour Relations
2. A Forgotten Tradition
3. Democracy and the Question of a Fair Division of Labour
   
   Excursus I: On the Concept of Social Labour
   
   II. Historical Interlude: The Reality of Social Labour
4. A Spotlight on the Nineteenth Century
5. From 1900 to the Threshold of the Present
6. The Capitalist World of Work Today
   
   Excursus II: On the Concept of the Social Division of Labour
   Part III: The Political Struggle for the Future of Social Labour
7. The Politics of Labour
8. Alternatives to the Labour Market
9. Improvements to the Labour Market
   
   Notes
   Index