Axel Honneth Quotes
Axel Honneth is a German philosopher, the most important successor to Jurgen Habermas in the tradition of Frankfurt School critical theory, and the long-time director of the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt. The Struggle for Recognition reconstructed Hegel's early Jena writings to argue that the desire for recognition by others, rather than the satisfaction of interest, is the deep grammar of social conflict. The quotes below are attributed to Axel Honneth, organized by topic.
Axel Honneth on Freedom
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Attributed to Axel Honneth:
“Social freedom is realized only in the institutions through which we recognize one another.”
Axel Honneth on Knowledge
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“Social philosophy is primarily concerned with determining and discussing processes of social decelopment that can be viewed as misdevelopments, disorders or "social pathologies.”
Disrespect: The Normative Foundations of Critical Theory (2007), p. 4 -
“Disrespect: The Normative Foundations of Critical Theory (2007), p. 4”
Social philosophy is primarily concerned with determining and discussing processes of social decelopment that can be viewed as misdevelopments, disorders or "social pathologies.
Axel Honneth on Mind
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Attributed to Axel Honneth:
“Recognition is the condition of any non-pathological self-relation.”
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Attributed to Axel Honneth:
“Reification is the forgetting of antecedent recognition.”
Axel Honneth on Politics
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Attributed to Axel Honneth:
“What people fight for is not interest but recognition.”
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Attributed to Axel Honneth:
“Socialism is the ongoing democratization of social spheres.”