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Axel Honneth
(b.1949) is a social philosopher and director of the Frankfurt Insititute for Social Research. His publications include: The Struggle for Recognition. The Moral Grammar of Social Conflicts (1996); Changing Perspectives on the Moral Order of Society (with Nancy Fraser) (2003); and Anxiety and Politics (2003).
Eurozine Articles
Justice and communicative freedom. Thoughts in connection to Hegel
Rather than the redistribution of resources, social justice depends on recognition, for which Axel Honneth identifies three forms: emotional concern, moral respect, and social esteem. [more]
Racism as a defect of socialization
Axel Honneth in interview
The recognition paradigm is indispensable to an understanding of the origins of racism and to the education of young offenders. [more]
Recognition is a basic mechanism of social existence
An interview with Axel Honneth
Axel Honneth on the heritage of the Frankfurt School, the conflict between neo-Marxism and recognition theory, and the ambivalence of the European Left towards democratization in the post-Soviet space. [more]