Recognition and power : Axel Honneth and the tradition of critical social theory

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Title:

Recognition and power : Axel Honneth and the tradition of critical social theory

Author:

Brink, Bert van den.

ISBN:

9780521864459

Publication Information:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Physical Description:

xiv, 399 p. ; 24 cm.

General Note:

Formerly CIP.

Contents:

Philosophical approaches to recognition -- Recognition and power in social theory -- Recognition and power in political theory -- Axel Honneth on recognition and power.

Personal Subject:

Honneth, Axel, 1949-.

Subject Term:

Critical theory.

Recognition (Philosophy)

Power (Philosophy)

Added Author:

Brink, Bert van den.

Owen, David, 1964-

Electronic Access:

Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0617/2006022360.html
Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0729/2006022360-d.html
Contributor biographical information http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0729/2006022360-b.html

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The topic of recognition has come to occupy a central place in debates in social and political theory. Developed by George Herbert Mead and Charles Taylor, it has been given expression in the program for Critical Theory developed by Axel Honneth in his book The Struggle for Recognition. Honneth's research program offers an empirically insightful way of reflecting on emancipatory struggles for greater justice and a powerful theoretical tool for generating a conception of justice and the good that enables the normative evaluation of such struggles. This 2007 volume offers a critical clarification and evaluation of this research program, particularly its relationship to the other major development in critical social and political theory; namely, the focus on power as formative of practical identities (or forms of subjectivity) proposed by Michel Foucault and developed by theorists such as Judith Butler, James Tully, and Iris Marion Young.

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