The Struggle for Recognition: The Moral Grammar of Social Conflicts

by Axel Honneth

Book Overview

In this pathbreaking study, Axel Honneth argues that "the struggle for recognition" is, and should be, at the center of social conflicts. Moving smoothly between moral philosophy and social theory, Honneth offers insights into such issues as the social forms of recognition and nonrecognition, the moral basis of interaction in human conflicts, the relation between the recognition model and conceptions of modernity, the normative basis of social theory,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262581477
• ISBN13: 9780262581479
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher