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The Pathologies of Individual Freedom: Hegel's Social Theory

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Pathologies of Individual Freedom: Hegel's Social Theory
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Axel Honneth
Translated by Ladislaus Loeb
SeriesPrinceton Monographs in Philosophy
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:96
Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 140
Category/GenreWestern philosophy - c 1600 to c 1900
Social and political philosophy
ISBN/Barcode 9780691171371
ClassificationsDewey:193
Audience
Undergraduate
Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher Princeton University Press
Imprint Princeton University Press
Publication Date 31 May 2016
Publication Country United States

Description

This is a penetrating reinterpretation and defense of Hegel's social theory as an alternative to reigning liberal notions of social justice. The eminent German philosopher Axel Honneth rereads Hegel's Philosophy of Right to show how it diagnoses the pathologies of the overcommitment to individual freedom that Honneth says underlies the ideas of Raw

Author Biography

Axel Honneth is professor of social philosophy at Goethe University and director of the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt am Main. His many books include Pathologies of Reason, Reification, The Struggle for Recognition, and The Critique of Power.

Reviews

"Axel Honneth's book is stimulating, insightful, philosophically interesting, and analytically sophisticated. Its main contribution lies in its sympathetic, philosophically acute reconstruction of Hegel's position on individual freedom, which is made with an eye to lending it contemporary relevance. The book succeeds admirably and makes a great contribution to the English-language literature on Hegel."-Fred Neuhouser, Barnard College