Debating Critical Theory - 9781786614780

Debating Critical TheoryEngagements with Axel Honneth\nAuthor(s): Julia Christ, Kristina Lepold, Daniel Loick, Titus Stahl\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Rowman & Littlefield International\nISBN-13: 9781786614780, 978-1786614780\nSynopsis\nAxel Honneth is widely regarded as one of the most important contemporary critical theorists. His oeuvre, which spans more than four decades of writingfrom his early engagement with critique in the Frankfurt School tradition to his theory of recognition and the latest discussions of freedom in modern ethical life and the question of socialismhas been enormously influential in the shaping of current critical theory and beyond. Bringing together leading scholars in contemporary social and political philosophy, this authoritative book takes the central themes of Honneths work as a starting point for debating the present and future of critical theory as a form of socially grounded philosophy that i.