Axel Honneth is the Jack B. Weinstein Professor of the Humanities at the Department of Philosophy at Columbia University. Prior to that he was professor of social philosophy at Goethe University in Frankfurt and the director of the Institute of Social Research, also placed in Frankfurt. His main research interests are in the field of social and political philosophy, where he attempts to re-actualise the insights of the classical tradition from Kant over Hegel to Marx for contemporary issues; he connects historical inquiries with more systematic questions in social and political philosophy, particularly topics around the role of struggles on mutual recognition for the social integration of modern societies. His books include a study on the constitutive function of recognition for struggles and social conflicts within modern societies (The Struggle for Recognition), a study on the social foundations of democratic life (Freedom’s Right), a study on the idea of socialism (The Idea of Socialism) and a study on the intellectual history of the notion of “recognition” in modern European thought (Recognition). He has been a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton in 2018-19 and has delivered the Tanner Lectures 2004-05 at UC Berkeley.
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