TY - BOOK AU - Jakobsen,Jonas AU - Lysaker,Odin TI - Recognition and freedom: Axel Honneth's political thought T2 - Social and critical theory, SN - 9789004287341 AV - B2899.L5 R43 2015 U1 - 320.092 23 PY - 2015///] CY - Leiden, Boston PB - Brill KW - Honneth, Axel, KW - Liberty KW - Philosophy KW - Sociology KW - fast N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Preliminary Material --; Introduction: Recognition and Freedom in Axel Honneth’s Political Thought; Odin Lysaker and Jonas Jakobsen --; 1 Education and the Democratic Public Sphere: A Neglected Chapter of Political Philosophy; Axel Honneth --; 2 Recognition, Education, and Civic Equality: Uncovering the Normative Ideals of the Welfare State; Simon Laumann Jørgensen --; 3 Recognition, Solidarity, and the Politics of Esteem: Basic Income as a Test Case; Arto Laitinen --; 4 Sociality, Anti-Sociality, and Social Work: Political Imagination in a Social Democratic Welfare State in Decline; Heikki Ikäheimo --; 5 Dimensions of Freedom: Axel Honneth’s Critique of Liberalism; Morten Raffnsøe-Møller --; 6 Surplus of Indeterminacy: A Hegelian Critique of Neoliberalism; Arne Johan Vetlesen --; 7 Democratic Disagreement and Embodied Dignity: The Moral Grammar of Political Conflicts; Odin Lysaker --; 8 Contextualising Religious Pain: Saba Mahmood, Axel Honneth, and the Danish Cartoons; Jonas Jakobsen --; 9 Inquiries into Identity: The Struggle for Recognition in Erik Allardt’s Study of Ethnic Conflicts; Arvi Särkelä --; 10 Ultimate Values and Immanent Critique: On Axel Honneth’s Das Recht der Freiheit and Gunnar Myrdal’s An American Dilemma; Carl-Göran Heidegren --; 11 Writing History from a Normative Point of View: The Reconstructive Method in Axel Honneth’s Das Recht der Freiheit; Jørgen Pedersen --; 12 Freedom, Solidarity, and Democracy: An Interview with Axel Honneth; Morten Raffnsøe-Møller --; Index; Available to subscribing member institutions only N2 - Recognition and Freedom brings together leading international scholars to discuss the political thought of the social philosopher Axel Honneth. In addition to providing an introduction to Honneth’s political thought, the book examines topics such as education, solidarity, multiculturalism, agonism, neo-liberalism and the ways in which these issues challenge core aspects of liberal democracies. The book includes an interview with Axel Honneth in the light of his most recent work, Freedom’s Right, as well as an essay by him previously unpublished in English UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004287341 ER -