Title: Modernity, intersubjectivity and recognition: Habermas and Honneth
Abstract: In Chapter 4 we examined Adorno's anti-Hegelian Hegelianism, his attempt to construct a negative dialectic that would rescue the dimension of non-identity threatened by the rule of instrumental rationality. This chapter continues the exploration of what I am calling “German Hegelianism”, which engaged in a critique of Hegelian thought but also retained a sense of its relevance for the problem of modernity and the theory of intersubjectivity. In this chapter I explore the appropriation of Hegelian themes in the work of the next generation of Frankfurt school critical theorists, Jürgen Habermas and Axel Honneth. In particular, I shall focus on their approach to the critique of modernity, their Hegelian-inspired turn to a theory of intersubjectivity, and their renewed emphasis on the concept of mutual recognition as an essential feature of social identity. In doing so, I hope to show that Hegelian thought remains a source of philosophical inspiration for comprehending our experience of modernity and for renewing contemporary social and political philosophy.
Publication Year: 2007
Publication Date: 2007-05-30
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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