The Pathologies of Individual Freedom: Hegel's Social Theory: 30 (Princeton Monographs in Philosophy, 30) - Hardcover

Honneth, Axel

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ISBN 10: 069111806X ISBN 13: 9780691118062

Verlag: Princeton University Press, 2010

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Book by Honneth Axel

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"Axel Honneth's book is stimulating, insightful, philosophically interesting, and analytically sophisticated. Its main contribution lies in its sympathetic, philosophically acute reconstruction of Hegel's position on individual freedom, which is made with an eye to lending it contemporary relevance. The book succeeds admirably and makes a great contribution to the English-language literature on Hegel."--Fred Neuhouser, Barnard College

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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.

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• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 069111806X
• ISBN 13: 9780691118062
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 96