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Un'analisi dell'attuale crisi della democrazia, dovuta alla globalizzazione dei poteri finanziari e dell'informatica, che determinano la politica. Quando questa si adegua alle loro desisioni, la democrazia rimane solo formalmente. L'unica speranza sta nella vitalità dell'opinione pubblica.

The proposal contained in the recent book by Axel Honneth, The Idea of Socialism, is to expose socialism as an ideal form of life, founded not on the value of equality but on the value of freedom. Its limit is to reduce the different forms of freedom that characterize Hegelian ethical life to a single model founded on fraternity and as a global alternative to capitalism. On the contrary, we should think socialism as an experimental and fragmentary way starting from the plural forms of freedom that already exist and already operate in our societies. Socialism does not end but survives as a negative idea that is built by trial and error, starting from both the contradictions and the potential of the present. ; The proposal contained in the recent book by Axel Honneth, The Idea of Socialism, is to expose socialism as an ideal form of life, founded not on the value of equality but on the value of freedom. Its limit is to reduce the different forms of freedom that characterize Hegelian ethical life to a single model founded on fraternity and as a global alternative to capitalism. On the contrary, we should think socialism as an experimental and fragmentary way starting from the plural forms of freedom that already exist and already operate in our societies. Socialism does not end but survives as a negative idea that is built by trial and error, starting from both the contradictions and the potential of the present.

The paper aims to provide an analysis of Rahel Jaeggi's theory from the standpoint of the Hegelian-turn in the most recent developments of critical theory. It analyzes the transition from Jürgen Habermas' Kantian normativism to the Hegelianism of Axel Honneth and Rahel Jaeggi. It also deals with a narrower question, concerning Jaeggi's account of "immanent critique" and the relevance to it of Hegel's "determinate negation".

The theory of justice is possible only as a theory of society. According to Axel Honneth's recent work, Freedom's Right, the justification of norms does not consist in a constructivist foundation but in their rootedness in the social institutions of recognition. In the spirit of Hegel's Philosophy of Right, Honneth sees in social institutions not only the historical conditions of mutual recognition but also the source of our autonomy and the condition of our self-realization. To support his thesis he applies the Hegelian method of «normative reconstruction», freeing it from all metaphysical bonds.