The Pathologies of Individual Freedom: Hegel's Social Theory

by Axel Honneth

Book Overview

This is a penetrating reinterpretation and defense of Hegel's social theory as an alternative to reigning liberal notions of social justice. The eminent German philosopher Axel Honneth rereads Hegel's Philosophy of Right to show how it diagnoses the pathologies of the overcommitment to individual freedom that Honneth says underlies the ideas of Rawls and Habermas alike. Honneth argues that Hegel's theory contains an account of the psychological...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069111806X
• ISBN13: 9780691118062
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"