Disrespect: The Normative Foundations of Critical Theory. By Axel Honneth. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2007. Pp. 275. $26.95 (paper).

2009 ◽  
Vol 115 (2) ◽  
pp. 645-647
Author(s):  
Leon Bailey
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Axel Honneth ◽  
Normative Foundations

scholarly journals Two attempts at grounding social critique in „ordinary“ actors’ perspectives: The critical theories of Nancy Fraser and Axel Honneth

2014 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 29-50
Author(s):  
Marjan Ivkovic
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Social Critique ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Axel Honneth ◽  
The Social ◽  
Normative Criteria ◽  
Nancy Fraser ◽  
Normative Foundations

This paper analyzes two contemporary, ?third-generation? perspectives within critical theory - Nancy Fraser?s and Axel Honneth?s - with the aim of examining the degree to which the two authors succeed in grounding the normative criteria of social critique in the perspectives of ?ordinary? social actors, as opposed to speculative social theory. To that end, the author focuses on the influential debate between Fraser and Honneth Redistribution or Recognition? which concerns the appropriate normative foundations of a ?post-metaphysical? critical theory, and attempts to reconstruct the fundamental 29 disagreements between Fraser and Honneth over the meaning and tasks of critical theory. The author concludes that both critical theorists ultimately secure the normative foundations of critique through substantive theorizations of the social, which frame the two authors? ?reconstructions? of the normativity of everyday social action, but argues that post-metaphysical critical theory does not have to abandon comprehensive social theory in order to be epistmologically ?non-authoritarian?.

scholarly journals Between Ideology and Utopia: Honneth and Ricoeur on Symbolic Violence, Marginalization and Recognition

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marianne Moyaert
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Symbolic Violence ◽  
Symbolic Order ◽  
Counter Narratives ◽  
Axel Honneth ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
Cultural Minorities ◽  
Struggle For Recognition ◽  
Vital Resource

This article focuses on multiculturalism in the context of present-day societies and the need to incorporate minorities within a reframed social order. In his critical theory, Axel Honneth rightly draws attention to the idea of the moral grammar of struggles for recognition.  Analyzing his theory in depth, the article shows that Honneth underestimates the violent power of ideological discourse in marginalizing and excluding society’s others, e.g. cultural minorities. It then puts forward an alternative approach based on Ricœur’s creative and original reflections on ideology and utopia. For the incorporation of cultural minorities to occur, the symbolic order of society needs to be critiqued, transformed and expanded. From this perspective, the author highlights the subversive and transformative strength of utopian counter-narratives. The latter form a vital resource for cultural minorities in their struggle for recognition.

Security after emancipation? Critical Theory, violence and resistance

2010 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 1113-1135 ◽  
Author(s):  
COLUMBA PEOPLES
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
World Politics ◽  
Security Studies ◽  
Herbert Marcuse ◽  
Transformative Change ◽  
Current Configuration ◽  
Critical Security Studies ◽  
The Status ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Normative Foundations

AbstractWithin the current configuration of Critical Security Studies (CSS) the concept of ‘emancipation’ is upheld as the keystone of a commitment to transformative change in world politics, but comparatively little is said on the status of violence and resistance within that commitment. As a means of highlighting this relative silence, this article examines the nature of the connection between CSS and the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School. In particular it disinters the reflections of Herbert Marcuse on the connections between emancipatory change, violence and resistance as a means of interrogating and challenging the definition of ‘security as emancipation’. Doing so, it is argued, points towards some of the potential limitations of equating security and emancipation, and provides a provocation of contemporary CSS from within its own cited intellectual and normative foundations.

Disrespect, The Normative Foundations of Critical Theory

2009 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 261-266
Author(s):  
Anastasia Marinopoulou ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Normative Foundations

RECONSTRUÇÃO NORMATIVA E SOCIALIDADE DA RAZÃO: NOTAS SOBRE A DISCUSSÃO CONTEMPORÂNEA EM TORNO DA NOÇÃO HEGELIANA DE RECONHECIMENTO

2016 ◽  
Vol 43 (137) ◽  
pp. 365
Author(s):  
Erick Lima
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Great Influence ◽  
Practical Philosophy ◽  
Contemporary Debate ◽  
Axel Honneth ◽  
Normative Reconstruction

No esforço a seguir, gostaria de apresentar as direções mais gerais pelas quais se dá a discussão na filosofia contemporânea da noção hegeliana de reconhecimento. Depois de recordar a origem desse conceito, recupero um contexto epistemológico de discussão no qual a noção de intersubjetividade agregada à noção de reconhecimento se faz presente (1). Em seguida, procuro coordenar, a partir da recente discussão travada por Robert Pippin e Axel Honneth, a relação entre o programa de “reconstrução normativa” e a tese de que estaria em jogo, na filosofia hegeliana, uma “socialidade da razão” (2). Finalmente, a partir dessa rápida retomada, aprofundo a questão de pertinência da noção de reconhecimento no âmbito da filosofia prática, da filosofia social e da teoria crítica (3).Abstract: The paper aims at presenting the main features of the contemporary debate on Hegel’s concept of recognition. To begin with, we attempt to recover the epistemological context in which the comprehension of intersubjectivity, linked to the notion of recognition, seems to have great influence (1). Secondly, based on the discussion between Robert Pippin and Axel Honneth about neo-Hegelianism in practical philosophy, we investigate the relation between “normative reconstruction” and “sociality of reason” (2). Finally, the paper focuses on the importance of recognition in philosophical branches such as practical philosophy and critical theory.

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