The Fragmented World of the Social

Axel Honneth is Professor of Political Philosophy at the Free University of Berlin and is a leading figure in the Frankfurt School tradition of critical theory. He is the author of a number of books, including The Critique of Power, The Struggle for Recognition, and (with Hans Joas) Social Action and Human Nature.

Acknowledgments
Author's Introduction


I. The Tradition of Critical Theory


1. Domination and Moral Struggle: The Philosophical Heritage of Marxism Reviewed


2. Work and Instrumental Action: On the Normative Basis of Critical Theory


3. A Fragmented World: On the Implicit Relevance of Lukács' Early Work


4. Critical Theory


5. From Adorno to Habermas: On the Transformation of Critical Social Theory


6. Foucault and Adorno: Two Forms of the Critique of Modernity


II. Inquiries in the French Tradition of Social Theory


7. A Structuralist Rousseau: On the Anthropology of Claude Lévi-Strauss


8. Embodied Reason: On the Rediscovery of Merleau-Ponty


9. The Struggle for Recognition: On Sartre's Theory of Intersubjectivity


10. Rescuing the Revolution with an Ontology: On Cornelius Castoriadis' Theory of Society


11. The Fragmented World of Symbolic Forms: Reflections on Pierre Bourdieu's Sociology of Culture


III. Inquiries in Contemporary Moral Theory and Social Philosophy


12. Moral Consciousness and Class Domination: Some Problems in the Analysis of Hidden Morality


13. Pluralization and Recognition: On the Self-Misunderstanding of Postmodern Social Theories


14. The Limits of Liberalism: On the Political-Ethical Discussion Concerning Communitarianism


15. Integrity and Disrespect: Principles of a Conception of Morality Based on a Theory of Recognition


16. Decentered Autonomy: The Subject after the Fall


Notes and References


Index