Table of Content
AcknowledgmentsAuthor’s Introduction
I. The Tradition of Critical Theory
1. Domination and Moral Struggle: The Philosophical Heritage of Marxism Reviewed
2. Work and Instrumental Action: On the Normative Basis of Critical Theory
3. A Fragmented World: On the Implicit Relevance of Lukács’ Early Work
4. Critical Theory
5. From Adorno to Habermas: On the Transformation of Critical Social Theory
6. Foucault and Adorno: Two Forms of the Critique of Modernity
II. Inquiries in the French Tradition of Social Theory
7. A Structuralist Rousseau: On the Anthropology of Claude Lévi-Strauss
8. Embodied Reason: On the Rediscovery of Merleau-Ponty
9. The Struggle for Recognition: On Sartre’s Theory of Intersubjectivity
10. Rescuing the Revolution with an Ontology: On Cornelius Castoriadis’ Theory of Society
11. The Fragmented World of Symbolic Forms: Reflections on Pierre Bourdieu’s Sociology of Culture
III. Inquiries in Contemporary Moral Theory and Social Philosophy
12. Moral Consciousness and Class Domination: Some Problems in the Analysis of Hidden Morality
13. Pluralization and Recognition: On the Self-Misunderstanding of Postmodern Social Theories
14. The Limits of Liberalism: On the Political-Ethical Discussion Concerning Communitarianism
15. Integrity and Disrespect: Principles of a Conception of Morality Based on a Theory of Recognition
16. Decentered Autonomy: The Subject after the Fall
Notes and References
Index
About the author
Axel Honneth is Professor of Political Philosophy at the Free University of Berlin and is a leading figure in the Frankfurt School tradition of critical theory. He is the author of a number of books, includingThe Critique of Power, The Struggle for Recognition, and (with Hans Joas)
Social Action and Human Nature.
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