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The Struggle for Recognition: The Moral Grammar of Social Conflicts (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought)
By: Axel Honneth Publisher: The MIT Press Average Rating: Binding: Paperback Label: The MIT Press Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 240 Publication Date: October 11, 1996
Product Description: In this pathbreaking study, Axel Honneth argues that "the struggle for recognition" is, and should be, at the center of social conflicts. Moving smoothly between moral philosophy and social theory, Honneth offers insights into such issues as the social forms of recognition and nonrecognition, the moral basis of interaction in human conflicts, the relation between the recognition model and conceptions of modernity, the normative basis of social theory, and the possibility of mediating between Hegel and Kant.
Meadian Variations Although you'd hardly know it by looking at recent sales, Axel Honneth is one of the world's major intellectuals; and has perhaps the most advanced sensibility in social theory today, as evidenced by this book and his earlier *Critique of Power*. Both are crisp, lucid expositions of themes drawn both from classic sociology and German Idealism. Honneth has done much to "re-sociologize" the work of the *second* Frankfurt School workgroup. Here he follows the lead of Hans Joas and treats George Herbert Mead as a substantive social theorist rather than a "pragmatic" wish-fulfiller; and this according to the principles of *ego psychology*.
In the 80s and 90s ego psychologists were scorned as psychological "River Rouge workers", but worse things have existed -- and furthermore, the principles of ego psychology provide a firm grounding for discussing questions of desert and other "normativities" found in moral discourse. Which discourse perhaps ordinarily obeys a none-too-transparent logic, a question raised by the recent work of Martha Nussbaum and Amartya Sen on "welfare economics" outside questions of political desert; and Honneth's none-too-opaque constructions provide a solid grounding for raising necessary question the legitimacy of socialist strategies still obsessed with unclear questions of "micropower".
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