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Cover -- Title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Part I: Forms of Social Freedom -- 1 The Depths of Recognition -- I -- II -- III -- 2 On the Poverty of Our Freedom -- Hegel's Three Concepts of Freedom -- The Fabric of Freedom in Our Modern World -- Conclusion: A New Idea of Justice -- 3 The Normativity of Ethical Life -- I -- II -- 4 Hegel and Marx -- A Shared Vision of History -- The Advantages of Hegel's Social Theory -- Marx's Insights and Their Possible Place in Hegel's Social Theory -- 5 Economy or Society? -- I -- II -- III -- IV. -- 6 Three, Not Two, Concepts of Liberty -- I -- II -- III -- Part II: Deformations of Social Freedom -- 7 The Diseases of Society -- 8 Education and the Democratic Public Sphere -- 1. The Decoupling of Pedagogy from Political Philosophy -- 2. Educating "Good Citizens" -- 3. Challenges for Democratic Education -- 9 Democracy and the Division of Labor -- 1. -- 2. -- 3. -- 10 Childhood -- I -- II -- Part III: Sources of Social Freedom -- 11 Denaturalizations of the Lifeworld -- I -- II -- III -- 12 Is There an Emancipatory Interest? -- 1. Introduction -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- 13 A History of Moral Self-Correction -- I -- II -- III -- IV. -- Notes -- Preface -- Chapter 1: The Depths of Recognition -- Chapter 2: On the Poverty of Our Freedom -- Chapter 3: The Normativity of Ethical Life -- Chapter 4: Hegel and Marx -- Chapter 5: Economy or Society? -- Chapter 6: Three, Not Two, Concepts of Liberty -- Chapter 7: The Diseases of Society -- Chapter 8: Education and the Democratic Public Sphere -- Chapter 9: Democracy and the Division of Labor -- Chapter 10: Childhood -- Chapter 11: Denaturalizations of the Lifeworld -- Chapter 12: Is There an Emancipatory Interest? -- Chapter 13: A History of Moral Self-Correction -- Index -- EULA.

This chapter will, first, reconstructs Axel Honneth's account of the significance of recognition in his book The Struggle for Recognition and track some of the unresolved tensions in it and their role in Honneth's subsequent work. The final part of the chapter focusses on Honneth's more recent monograph The Freedom's Right, in which an oscillation of his position between universalism and historicism or relativism pauses in the latter end. This limits the applicability of the theory outside the confines of Europe or the West. It turns out that the reconstruction and immanent critique of Honneth's work, however, supports recognition-theoretical universalism.

The theory of justice is one of the most intensely debated areas of contemporary philosophy. Most theories of justice, however, have only attained their high level of justification at great cost. By focusing on purely normative, abstract principles, they become detached from the sphere that constitutes their "field of application" - namely, social reality. Axel Honneth proposes a different approach. He seeks to derive the currently definitive criteria of social justice directly from the normative claims that have developed within Western liberal democratic societies. These criteria and these claims together make up what he terms "democratic ethical life": a system of morally legitimate norms that are not only legally anchored, but also institutionally established. Honneth justifies this far-reaching endeavour by demonstrating that all essential spheres of action in Western societies share a single feature, as they all claim to realize a specific aspect of individual freedom. In the spirit of Hegel's Philosophy of Right and guided by the theory of recognition, Honneth shows how principles of individual freedom are generated which constitute the standard of justice in various concrete social spheres: personal relationships, economic activity in the market, and the political public sphere. Honneth seeks thereby to realize a very ambitious aim: to renew the theory of justice as an analysis of society.

Over the last decade, Axel Honneth has established himself as one of the leading social and political philosophers in the world today. Rooted in the tradition of critical theory, his writings have been central to the revitalization of critical theory and have become increasingly influential. His theory of recognition has gained worldwide attention and is seen by some as the principal counterpart to Habermass theory of discourse ethics. In this important new volume, Honneth pursues his path-breaking work on recognition by exploring the moral experiences of disrespect that underpin the conduct o