Autorentext
Dagmar Wilhelm is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of the West of England.

Klappentext

This book offers a critical assessment of Axel Honneth’s complex and growing opus in social and political philosophy. It examines this in the context of the history and future of the Frankfurt School and in its relation to contemporary analytic approaches to social and political philosophy as well as postmodernist critics.

Zusammenfassung
This book offers a critical assessment of Axel Honneth's complex and growing opus in social and political philosophy. It examines this in the context of the history and future of the Frankfurt School and in its relation to contemporary analytic approaches to social and political philosophy as well as postmodernist critics.

Inhalt

Introduction / 1. Honneth and the History of the Frankfurt School / 2. A Method for Social Critique / 3. Recognition Theory / 4. Recognition and the Market / 5. Reification and Social Pathologies / 6. A New Programme for the Left: Re-appropriating Marx and Hegel / 7. Recognition Theory Meets Rawls / 8. Postmodernist Critiques / 9. Conclusion: The Future of Recognition Theory / Bibliography / Index