The Poverty of Our Freedom

Axel Honneth 지음

Polity 2022년 06월 13일 출간

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책소개

There is no normative concept more appealing today than the idea of individual freedom. Political party manifestos are drawn up, legal reforms are defended, military interventions are undertaken, even decisions in personal relationships are justified all in the name of individual freedom. But our understanding of freedom is impoverished if we try to grasp its essence merely in terms of the subjective rights of the individual.In his new book, Axel Honneth shows that we still have a lot to learn from the tradition of philosophy about a rational concept of freedom. Honneth begins by re-examining the work of Hegel and Marx in order to clarify the concept of freedom. He then explores various social problem areas in which the ideals of freedom are directly confronted by contemporary obstacles. Honneth ends by examining potential forces which could give new impetus to our struggle for freedom.This new book by one of the leading social and political philosophers writing today will be of great interest to students and scholars of philosophy, political theory, social theory, and the social sciences and humanities generally.

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AcknowledgementsPrefacePart I: Forms of Social Freedom1. The Depths of RecognitionThe legacy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau2. On the Poverty of Our FreedomRelevance and limits of the Hegelian ethical system3. The Normativity of Ethical Life4. Hegel and MarxA reassessment after one century5. Economy or Society?The greatness and limits of Marx’s theory of capitalism6. Three, Not Two Concepts of LibertyA proposal to enlarge our moral self-understandingPart II: Deformations of Social Freedom7. The Diseases of SocietyApproaching a nearly impossible concept8. Education and the Democratic Public SphereA neglected chapter of political philosophy9. Democracy and the Division of LabourA blind spot in political philosophy10. ChildhoodInconsistencies in our liberal imaginationPart III. Sources of Social Freedom11. Denaturalizations of the LifeworldOn the threefold use of the humanities12. Is There an Emancipatory Interest?An attempt to answer critical theory's most fundamental question13. A History of Moral Self-CorrectionTracing European solidarityNotesIndex

출판사 서평

“This collection of superbly translated essays demonstrates once again that Axel Honneth is not only an academic philosopher of the first rank but also a public intellectual of international significance. The astounding range of essays included here on topics from the contradictions in our understanding of childhood to the history of European solidarity to the relation between education and democracy will be of supreme interest to philosophers and non-philosophers alike who have some inkling of the poverty of both our dominant conceptions of freedom and of the social institutions that are grounded in them.”Frederick Neuhouser, Barnard College, Columbia University“These powerful and incisive essays are a major contribution to the contemporary struggle against fetishized conceptions of individual freedom. Their relevance in a world trying desperately to escape the impasse of neoliberalism is clear.”Raymond Geuss, Professor (Emeritus), University of Cambridge

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저자(글) Axel Honneth