desire for what Hegel would call ‘recognition’ ( Anerkennung ). In keeping with Hegel, as well as other, latter-day Hegelians such as Charles Taylor and Axel Honneth, Fukuyama sees our desire to have our sense of ourselves acknowledged by other people as
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Freedom's Right
The Social Foundations of Democratic Life
Chad Kautzer
Axel Honneth. Freedom’s Right: The Social Foundations of Democratic Life
A Negative Theory of Justice
Towards a Critical Theory of Power Relations
Leonard Mazzone
critique of their justifications. Before comparing this theoretical perspective and Axel Honneth's theory of recognition, Nancy Fraser's three-dimensional conception of justice, and the critique of power relations recently advanced by Rainer Forst, however
Anita Chari
Hegel’s concept of recognition has been taken up by a number of thinkers, including Axel Honneth, Robert Williams, and Charles Taylor, under the banner of “the politics of recognition,” which pro- poses to put the concept of recognition to use in the service of a theory of politics that can respond to the problems of group-based structural injustice and subordination. According to these thinkers, equal recognition and the possibility of undistorted forms of communicative agreement serve as the regulative ideal that governs the ever-expanding horizon of a community of autonomous, mutually affirming equals, in which, as Honneth writes, each person has “the chance to know that he or she is socially esteemed with regard to his or her abilities.”
For a Critical Conceptual History of Brazil
Receiving Begriffsgeschichte
João Feres Júnior
The author argues that the development of a critical history of concepts should be based on a programmatic position different from that of original Begriffsgeschichte, or of its main interpretations. By drawing upon theoretical insights of Axel Honneth, he reassesses the basic assumption of Begriffsgeschichte regarding the relationship between the history of concepts and social history, and calls attention to the problems that spring from focusing analysis almost exclusively on key concepts. According to Feres, special attention should be paid to concepts that are socially and politically effective, but, at the same time, do not become the subject of public contestation. Based on this programmatic position, he ends the article proposing a sketch for organizing the study of conceptual history in Brazil along three semantic regions.
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
- Published (Print):
- 01 Oct 2005
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 185–200
Does the City of Ends Correspond to a Classless Society?
A New Idea of Democracy in Sartre's Hope Now
Maria Russo
evolution of capitalism. To update this debate and report on the modernity of Sartre's last words, his position will be compared with that of Axel Honneth, one of the most influential philosophers of the Frankfurt School (in addition to being the successor
In Sartre Studies International
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2019
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 52–68
John Gillespie and Katherine Morris
, existentialism is a humanism. Russo puts Sartre into fruitful dialogue with Axel Honneth and argues for the relevance of his vision of an ethical society for combatting today's neo-liberalism. The topic of Russo's article intersects with that of three of the
To Be or Not to Be a Hero
Recognition and Citizenship among Disabled Veterans of the Sri Lankan Army
Matti Weisdorf and Birgitte Refslund Sørensen
course of war—is at least as important to a feeling of existential well-being ( Honneth 1995 , 2007 ; Kabeer 2005 ; Ong 1996 ). This often entails serious and critical introspection but also reconsideration and reestablishment of social relationships
Introduction
War Veterans and the Construction of Citizenship Categories
Nikkie Wiegink, Ralph Sprenkels, and Birgitte Refslund Sørensen
Sørensen, this section). Bottom-up activism and “struggles for recognition” ( Honneth 1995 ) constitute a crucial facet of veteran politics. While the “new social movements” literature has emphasized the worth of mobilization around distinct subaltern
The Debts of War
Bifurcated Veterans’ Mobilization and Political Order in Post-settlement El Salvador
Ralph Sprenkels
in. First, I provide a conceptual discussion of veterans’ bifurcated mobilization in post-settlement societies, building on Axel Honneth's (1995) notion of recognition struggles and discussing its cyclical character. After a brief introduction of
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