Recognition and Poer Axel Honneth and the Tradition of Critical Social Theory [Paperback]

This 2007 volume offers a critical evaluation of the research program for Critical Theory developed by Honneth in his book The Struggle for Recognition.The topic of recognition has come to occupy a central place in contemporary debates in social and political theory. Rooted in Hegel's work, developed by George Herbert Mead and Charles Taylor, it has been given renewed expression in the recent program for Critical Theory developed by Axel Honneth in his book The Struggle for Recognition.The topic of recognition has come to occupy a central place in contemporary debates in social and political theory. Rooted in Hegel's work, developed by George Herbert Mead and Charles Taylor, it has been given renewed expression in the recent program for Critical Theory developed by Axel Honneth in his book The Struggle for Recognition.The topic of recognition has come to occupy a central place in contemporary debates in social and political theory. Rooted in Hegel's work, developed by George Herbert Mead and Charles Taylor, it has been given renewed expression in the recent 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.1. Introduction Bert van den Brink and David Owen; Part I. Philosophical Approaches to Recognition: 2. Analyzing recognition: identification, acknowledgment and recognitive attitudes towards persons Heikki Ikaheimo and Arto Laitinen; 3. Recognition and reconciliation: actualized agency in Hegel's jena phenomenology Robert Pippin; 4. Damaged life: power and recognition in Adorno's ethics Bert van den Brink; 5. The potential and the actual: Mead, Honneth, and the 'I' Patchen Markell; Part II. Recognition and Power in Social Theory: 6. Work, recognition, emancipal#H