Recognition or Disagreement (eBook)

A Critical Encounter on the Politics of Freedom, Equality, and Identity

Axel Honneth, Jacques Ranciere (Autoren)

Jean-Philippe Deranty, Katia Genel (Herausgeber)

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2016
Columbia University Press (Verlag)
978-0-231-54144-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Axel Honneth is known for his critique of modern society centered on a concept of recognition. Jacques Rancière has advanced a theory of modern politics based on disagreement. In a rare dialogue, these philosophers explore the affinities and tensions between their perspectives to provoke new ideas for social and political change.

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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.

Autor

Axel Honneth is professor of philosophy at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt and the Jack C. Weinstein Professor for the Humanities at Columbia University. He is also the author of the Columbia University Press books Pathologies of Reason: On the Legacy of Critical Theory (2009) and Freedom's Right: The Social Foundations of Democratic Life (2014).Jacques Rancière is professor of philosophy emeritus at the University of Paris VIII. Among his major works translated into English are Hatred of Democracy (2007), Aesthetics and Its Discontents (2009), and Mute Speech: Literature, Critical Theory, and Politics (Columbia, 2011).Katia Genel is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Paris I—Panthéon-Sorbonne.Jean-Philippe Deranty is associate professor of philosophy at Macquarie University, Sydney.

Inhalt

Part I. Setting the Stage1. Jacques Rancière and Axel Honneth: (Two?) Critical Approaches to the Political, by Katia Genel2. Between Honneth and Rancière: Problems and Potentials of a Contemporary Critical Theory of Society, by Jean-Philippe DerantyPart II. A Critical Encounter3. Critical Questions: On the Theory of Recognition, by Jacques Rancière4. Remarks on the Philosophical Approach of Jacques Rancière, by Axel Honneth5. A Critical DiscussionPart III. The Method of Critical Theory: Propositions6. The Method of Equality: Politics and Poetics, by Jacques Rancière7. Of the Poverty of Our Liberty: The Greatness and Limits of Hegel's Doctrine of Ethical Life, by Axel HonnethNotesBibliographyIndex

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.5.2016
• Reihe/Serie: New Directions in Critical Theory
• Reihe/Serie: New Directions in Critical Theory
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
• ISBN-10: 0-231-54144-9 / 0231541449
• ISBN-13: 978-0-231-54144-2 / 9780231541442