Philosopher

Axel Honneth

Overview

Axel Honneth (; German: [ˈaksl̩ ˈhɔnɛt]; born 18 July 1949) is a German philosopher working in the tradition of critical theory, who is the Professor for Social Philosophy at Goethe University Frankfurt and the Jack B. Weinstein Professor of the Humanities in the department of philosophy at Columbia University. He directed the University of Frankfurt Institute for Social Research between 2001 and 2018.

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Philosophers who discussed Axel Honneth

• John Rawls
• Jürgen Habermas
• Michael Walzer
• Nikolas Kompridis

Ideas Axel Honneth discusses

• French Revolution
• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
• Philosophy
• Power (social and political)
• John Dewey
• Jürgen Habermas
• Karl Marx
• Frankfurt School
• Nancy Fraser
• Social psychology
• University of Frankfurt Institute for Social Research
• Brill Publishers
• George Herbert Mead
• Critical theory
• György Lukács
• Western Marxism
• Historical materialism
• Michel Foucault
• Feminist philosophy
• Capitalism
• University of Amsterdam
• Columbia University
• New York City
• Ethics

Place in the tradition

Part of Materialism.

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