The Institute for Social Research at 100

Constellations · 2023 · 28 citations

• Computer Science
• Sociology
• Library science

was founded in Frankfurt 100 years ago in 1923, and over the past 100 years, it has gone through a process of dramatic expansion and differentiation.Because Constellations has long served as the major site in the Anglophone world for the elaboration of Frankfurt School critical theory, the editors of the journal determined that this centenary year would serve as an appropriate occasion for board members to pause and reflect on the state of critical theory

Recognition

2020 · 39 citations

• Sociology
• Political Science
• Epistemology

The idea that we are mutually dependent on the recognition of our peers is at least as old as modernity. Across Europe, this idea has been understood in different ways from the very beginning, according to each country's different cultural and political conditions. This stimulating study explores the complex history and multiple associations of the idea of 'Recognition' in Britain, France and Germany. Demonstrating the role of 'recognition' in the production of important political ideas, Axel Honneth explores how our dependence on the recognition of others is sometimes viewed as the source of all modern, egalitarian morality, sometimes as a means for fostering socially beneficial behavior, and sometimes as a threat to 'true' individuality. By exploring this fundamental concept in our modern political and social self-understanding, Honneth thus offers an alternative view of the philosophical discourse of modernity.

Recognition: A Chapter in the History of European Ideas

2020 · 53 citations

• Sociology
• Social Science
• Political Science

The idea that we are mutually dependent on the recognition of our peers is at least as old as modernity. Across Europe, this idea has been understood in different ways from the very beginning, according to each country's different cultural and political conditions. This stimulating study explores the complex history and multiple associations of the idea of 'Recognition' in Britain, France and Germany. Demonstrating the role of 'recognition' in the production of important political ideas, Axel Honneth explores how our dependence on the recognition of others is sometimes viewed as the source of all modern, egalitarian morality, sometimes as a means for fostering socially beneficial behavior, and sometimes as a threat to 'true' individuality. By exploring this fundamental concept in our modern political and social self-understanding, Honneth thus offers an alternative view of the philosophical discourse of modernity.