The Pathologies of Individual Freedom

Hegel's Social Theory

By:

Axel Honneth

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Series:

Princeton Monographs in Philosophy

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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 Rawls and Habermas alike. Honneth argues that Hegel's theory contains an account of the psychological damage caused by placing too much emphasis on personal and moral freedom. Although these freedoms are crucial to the achievement of justice, they are insufficient and in themselves leave people vulnerable to loneliness, emptiness, and depression. Hegel argues that people must also find their freedom or "self-realization" through shared projects. Such projects involve the three institutions of ethical life--family, civil society, and the state--and provide the arena of a crucial third kind of freedom, which Honneth calls "communicative" freedom. A society is just only if it gives all of its members sufficient and equal opportunity to realize communicative freedom as well as personal and moral freedom.

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".

Release date Australia

February 21st, 2010

Author

Axel Honneth

Series

Princeton Monographs in Philosophy

Contributor

Translated by Ladislaus Lob

Pages

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Dimensions

140x216x18

ISBN-13

9780691118062

Product ID

4270261

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