Axel Honneth

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Professor Honneth is Jack C. Weinstein Professor for the Humanities in the Department of Philosophy
at Columbia University; Director of the Institute for Social Research, Goethe-Universitt Frankfurt am
Main (since 2001); and C4-Professor of Social Philosophy, Goethe-Universitt Frankfurt am Main
(since 1996).
From 1992 to 1996, Professor Honneth was C4-Professor of Political Philosophy at Freie Universitt
Berlin; from 1991 to 1992 he was C3-Professor of Philosophy, University of Konstanz. From 1983 to
1989 he was Hochschulassistent (scientific assistant) to Prof. Dr. Jrgen Habermas, Dept. of
Philosophy, Goethe-Universitt Frankfurt/M.; from 1982 to 1983 he had a Research Grant with Prof. Dr.
Jrgen Habermas, Max-Planck-Institute for Social Sciences, Starnberg. From 1977 to 1982 he was
Wissenschaftlicher Assistent (scientific assistant), Institute of Sociology, Freie Universitt Berlin.
Professor Honneth studied Philosophy, Sociology, and German Literature at Rheinische FriedrichWilhelms-Universitt Bonn and Ruhr-Universitt Bochum from 1969-1974, earning his M.A. in
Philosophy in 1974. His postgraduate studes were at Freie Universitt Berlin from 1974-1976. His
Dissertation (thesis), at Freie Universitt Berlin in 1982 was entitled Kritik der Macht. Foucault und die
Kritische Theorie. Professor Honneths Habilitation (postdoctoral thesis and postdoctoral lecturing
qualification) was in 1990 at the Department of Philosophy, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitt
Frankfurt am Main, entitled Kampf um Anerkennung.
Areas of Specialization:
Social and Political Philosophy; Ethics; Social Theory
Authored Books:
The I in the We, Polity Press (forthcoming)
Das Recht der Freiheit, Suhrkamp Verlag, 2011
The Pathologies of Individual Freedom: Hegel`s Social Theory, Princeton University Press, 2010
Pathologies of Reason: On the Legacy of Critical Theory , Columbia University Press, 2009
Reification: A New Look at an Old Idea , Oxford University Press, 2008
Disrespect: The Normative Foundations of Critical Theory , Polity Press, 2007
Redistribution or Recognition?: A Political Philosophical Exchange , co-authored with Nancy Fraser,
Verso Press, 2003
The Struggle for Recognition: The Moral Grammar of Social Conflicts, MIT Press 1996
The Fragmented World of the Social: Essays in Social and Political Philosophy, State University of New
York Press 1995

The Critique of Power: Reflective Stages in a Critical Social Theory , MIT Press 1991
Social Action and Human Nature, co-authored with Hans Joas, Cambridge University Press, 1988