Recognition or Disagreement: A Critical Encounter on the Politics of Freedom, Equality, and Identity

ISBN-13: 9780231177160 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 240 str.

Axel Honneth; Jacques Ranciere; Katia Genel

Opis

Axel Honneth is best known for his critique of modern society centered on a concept of recognition. Jacques Ranciere has advanced an influential theory of modern politics based on disagreement. Underpinning their thought is a concern for the logics of exclusion and domination that structure contemporary societies. In a rare dialogue, these two philosophers explore the affinities and tensions between their perspectives to provoke new ideas for social and political change.

Honneth sees modern society as a field in which the logic of recognition provides individuals with increasing possibilities for freedom and is a constant catalyst for transformation. Ranciere sees the social as a policing order and the political as a force that must radically assert equality. Honneth claims Ranciere's conception of the political lies outside of actual historical societies and involves a problematic desire for egalitarianism. Ranciere argues that Honneth's theory of recognition relies on an overly substantial conception of identity and subjectivity. While impassioned, their exchange seeks to advance critical theory's political project by reconciling the rift between German and French post-Marxist traditions and proposing new frameworks for justice.

Recenzje

"This timely and important book brings together for the first time two of the leading practitioners of what can be termed 'critical theory,' the borderland where critical approaches to social and political theory, philosophy, and other fields as dispersed as history, aesthetics, and psychology meet. In so doing, Recognition or Disagreement will help to revive critical theory as a politically engaged and philosophically rigorous intellectual endeavor that extends across disciplines, approaches, and traditions, and to renew the long but disjointed dialogue between German and French approaches to the field. Despite its modest dimensions, it is a major contribution." - James Ingram, Associate Professor of Political Science, McMaster University

O autorze

Axel Honneth ist Professor für Sozialphilosophie an der Universität Frankfurt und der Columbia University sowie Direktor des Instituts für Sozialforschung in Frankfurt (IfS). 2015 wurde er mit dem Ernst-Bloch-Preis ausgezeichnet. Jacques Rancière, geb. 1940, lehrte zwischen 1969 und 2000 Philosophie und Kunsttheorie an der Universität Paris VIII.