Axel Honneth's social philosophy of recognition : freedom, normativity, and identity /

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Author / Creator:Pada, Roland Theuas, author.
Imprint:Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.
©2017
Description:1 online resource (viii, 201 pages)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12351176
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ISBN:9781527506992
1527506991
9781527503106
1527503100
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
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Summary:This book presents a reconstruction of the trajectories of freedom in Axel Honneth's recognition theory in the context of the conflict between autonomy and social cohesion. Honneth's re-appropriation of Hegel's notion of Sittlichkeit, or "ethical life," provides a potent descriptive theoretical perspective of social conflicts and an articulated praxis of Hegel's social theory. Amidst the current critical literature posed against the normative aspect of Honneth's critical theory, there is an already implicit solution to the problem of normativity and reification. By articulating the conflict be
Other form:Print version: Pada, Roland Theuas. Axel Honneth's social philosophy of recognition. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017 9781527503106