Reification

A New Look at an Old Idea
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-989805-3
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 182 Seiten, Format (B × H): 133 mm x 203 mm, Gewicht: 212 g

Reihe: The Berkeley Tanner Lectures

In the early 20th century, Marxist theory was enriched and rejuvenated by adopting the concept of reification, introduced by the Hungarian theorist Georg Lukács to identify and denounce the transformation of historical processes into ahistorical entities, human actions into things that seemed part of an immutable "second nature." For a variety of reasons, both theoretical and practical, the hopes placed in de-reification as a tool of revolutionary emancipation proved vain. In these original and imaginative essays, delivered as the Tanner Lectures at the University of California, Berkeley in 2005, the distinguished third-generation Frankfurt School philosopher Axel Honneth attempts to rescue the concept of reification by recasting it in terms of the philosophy of recognition he has been developing over the past two decades. Three distinguished political and social theorists: Judith Butler, Raymond Geuss, and Jonathan Lear, respond with hard questions about the central anthropological premise of his argument, the assumption that prior to cognition there is a fundamental experience of intersubjective recognition that can provide a normative standard by which current social relations can be judged wanted. Honneth listens carefully to their criticism and provides a powerful defense of his position.

Zielgruppe

Readers with an interest in philosophical questions that relate to political and social theory

Autoren/Hrsg.

Honneth, Axel

Butler, Judith

Geuss, Raymond

Lear, Jonathan

Jay, Martin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction, Martin Jay

Reification and Recognition: A New Look at an Old Idea, Axel Honneth

Comments:

Judith Butler
Raymond Geuss
Jonathan Lear
Rejoinder
Axel Honneth

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Honneth, Axel
Axel Honneth is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Institut für Sozialforschung, University of Frankfurt, Germany

Axel Honneth is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Institut für Sozialforschung, University of Frankfurt, Germany