Axel Honneth

Axel Honneth ( born July 18, 1949 in Essen) is a German social philosopher and director of the Institute for Social Research (IfS ) at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main.

Life

Honneth 1969-1974 studied philosophy, sociology and German studies in Bonn and Bochum and graduated with a master's in philosophy from. In 1977 he became a research assistant at the Institute of Sociology, Free University of Berlin. There he was in 1983 at Urs Jaeggi doctorate with the thesis " Foucault and Critical Theory " (later published under the title " critique of power "). There followed in 1983 a position as Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main as well as a parallel activity as " Fellow" at the Institute for Advanced Study Berlin.

In June 1990, Honneth habilitated with the work " struggle for recognition " at the Faculty of Philosophy in Frankfurt. In 1991 he received his first C3 professor of philosophy at the University of Constance, only a year later became professor of political philosophy took place at the Otto Suhr Institute of the Free University of Berlin. From September 1995 to April 1996 was also Honneth Theodor Heuss Visiting Professor at the New School for Social Research in New York, before being appointed in 1996 as professor of philosophy at the Goethe University in Frankfurt. He also belonged to the College of the "Institute for Social Research " at. In 1999, he took for a few months the Spinoza Chair at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Amsterdam. There he was appointed to the chair of philosophy with a focus on social philosophy at the University of Frankfurt. Honneth 2001 was appointed Executive Director of the Institute for Social Research.

Since autumn 2011 he has taught at Columbia University.

Axel Honneth is married to journalist and philosopher Christine Pries.

Research priorities

Honneth's research area is the social philosophy. The focus of his work is for reporting based on the Jena writings of Hegel and the symbolic interactionism, George Herbert Mead's theory of recognition, which he developed in his famous book, " struggle for recognition ". In his work " reification " he tries to reformulate these Marxist key term appreciation in theory. A related issue Honneth is similar to Habermas, the reconstruction of the morality of interpersonal relationships. Moral development requires interpersonal relationships and in the center of which are relations of recognition. Under the heading of " pathologies of reason" Honneth aims at the realization and development of a critical social theory in the sense of the Frankfurt School. He engages explicitly back to psychological and psychoanalytic theories and contemporary sociological theory and social ontology.

Honneth is co-editor of the "German Journal of Philosophy ", the " European Journal of Philosophy" and the magazine " Constellations ".

Since March 2007 he has also been President of the International Hegel Association.

Publications (selection)

  • Struggle for recognition. Frankfurt / M. 1992 ( new edition 2003 ), ISBN 3-518-06748-6.
  • Disintegration - fragments of a sociological term diagnosis. Frankfurt / M. 1994, ISBN 3-596-12347- X.
  • The Other of justice. Essays on practical philosophy. Frankfurt / M. 2000, ISBN 3-518-29091-6.
  • Critique of power. Frankfurt / M. 2000, ISBN 3-518-28338-3.
  • Suffering from indeterminacy. A reactualization of Hegel 's Philosophy of Right. Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-15-018144-5.
  • The work of negativity. A revision of the psychoanalytic theory of recognition. In: Werner Bohleber, Sibylle Drews (ed.): The presence of Psychoanalysis - Psychoanalysis of the present. Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-608-94349-8, pp. 238-245.
  • Michel Foucault - the midway point of a reception / Frankfurt Foucault conference in 2001 ( as a publisher). Frankfurt / M. 2003, ISBN 3-518-29217- X.
  • Communicative action (as ed. with Hans Joas ). Frankfurt 2002, ISBN 3-518-28225-5.
  • Redistribution or recognition? ( with Nancy Fraser ). Frankfurt / M. 2003, ISBN 3-518-29060-6.
  • Dialectic of freedom. Frankfurter Adorno 2003 Conference, Frankfurt / M. 2005, ISBN 3-518-29328-1.
  • Reification - a recognition-theoretical study. Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-518-58444-8.
  • Key texts of Critical Theory. (as ed.), Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 3-531-14108-2.
  • Axel Honneth: The Tanner Lectures on Human Values ​​(PDF, 8.5 MB ), English, 2005
  • Pathologies of reason. History and present of Critical Theory. Frankfurt / M. 2007, ISBN 978-3-518-29435-2
  • Bob Dylan. A congress (as ed. with Peter Kemper and Richard Klein ), Frankfurt / M. 2007, ISBN 978-3-518-12507-6
  • Renewal of criticism. Axel Honneth in conversation. Edited by Mauro Basaure, Jan Philip Reemtsma, Rasmus Willing. Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2009
  • The right of freedom - plan a democratic morality. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-518-58562-7.
  • Axel Honneth: Justice and communicative freedom. Reflection following Hegel (PDF, 53 kB)
  • Axel Honneth: Work and Recognition. A redefinition, audio file, English, 2007
  • Axel Honneth: sublimations of the Marxian heritage - An Apology of the occasion ( Jürgen Habermas 80th ), in: " Sheets for German and international politics ", 6/ 2009, pp. 53ff. ( Online)
  • Axel Honneth: fatal profundity from Karlsruhe. For latest writings of Peter Sloterdijk. In: The Time. No. 40, 24 September 2009.
Otto-Suhr-Institut The Internationale Hegel-Vereinigung Integrated Authority File
93616
de