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2James Risser, Hermeneutics and the Voice of the Other: Re-reading Gadamer's Philosophical Hermeneutics Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 18 (1): 57-59. 1998.
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78Anerkennung (edited book)Akademie Verlag. 2009.Theorien der "Anerkennung" zeichnen sich durch eine außergewöhnliche Leistungsstärke aus. In den letzten Jahren haben sie die Forschung auf den Gebieten der Moralphilosophie, der Politischen Philosophie und der Sozialphilosophie, aber auch auf denen der Psychologie und der Sozialwissenschaften sowohl thematisch als auch methodisch sehr stark bereichert. Viele dieser Theorien versuchen zudem, Überlegungen, die von klassischen Autoren wie Fichte oder Hegel entwickelt wurden, für die aktuelle Disku…Read more
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788Misrecognition, Marriage and DerecognitionIn Shane O'Neill Nicholas H. Smith (ed.), Recognition Theory as Social Research: Investigating the Dynamics of Social Conflict, Palgrave-macmillan. 2012.Contemporary recognition theory has developed powerful tools for understanding a variety of social problems through the lens of misrecognition. It has, however, paid somewhat less attention to how to conceive of appropriate responses to misrecognition, usually making the tacit assumption that the proper societal response is adequate or proper affirmative recognition. In this paper I argue that, although affirmative recognition is one potential response to misrecognition, it is not the only such …Read more
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12Review of Mitchell Aboulafia (ed.), Myra Bookman (ed.), Catherine Kemp (ed.), Habermas and Pragmatism (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2004 (3). 2004.
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26Anerkennung, Umverteilung und Demokratie Dilemmata in Honneths Kritischer Theorie der GesellschaftDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 53 (3). 2005.
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36Review of "Scales of Justice" by Nancy Fraser (review)Social Theory and Practice 38 (1): 165-172. 2012.
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9Perspectives on Habermas (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 40 (2): 274-275. 2002.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Journal of the History of Philosophy 40.2 (2002) 274-275 [Access article in PDF] Book Review Perspectives on Habermas Lewis Edwin Hahn, editor. Perspectives on Habermas. New York: Open Court, 2000. Pp. xiv + 586. Paper, $29.95. This collection of essays on the wide-ranging body of thought produced by Jürgen Habermas over the course of close to fifty years represents a significant lost opportunity. Although originally planned as a vol…Read more
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497Anthropology and normativity: a critique of Axel Honneth’s ‘formal conception of ethical life’Philosophy and Social Criticism 26 (1): 115-124. 2000.Axel Honneth, The Struggle for Recognition: The Moral Grammer of Social Conflicts (reviewed by Christopher Zurn).
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667Political Civility: Another Idealistic IllusionPublic Affairs Quarterly 27 (4). 2013.This paper argues that political civility is actually an illusionistic ideal and that, as such, realism counsels that we acknowledge both its promise and peril. Political civility is, I will argue, a tension-filled ideal. We have good normative reasons to strive for and encourage more civil political interactions, as they model our acknowledgement of others as equal citizens and facilitate high-quality democratic problem-solving. But we must simultaneously be attuned to civility’s limitations, i…Read more
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651Recognition, redistribution, and democracy: Dilemmas of Honneth's critical social theoryEuropean Journal of Philosophy 13 (1). 2005.What does social justice require in contemporary societies? What are the requirements of social democracy? Who and where are the individuals and groups that can carry forward agendas for progressive social transformation? What are we to make of the so-called new social movements of the last thirty years? Is identity politics compatible with egalitarianism? Can cultural misrecognition and economic maldistribution be fought simultaneously? What of the heritage of Western Marxism is alive and dead?…Read more
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2Deliberative Democracy and the Institutions of Judicial ReviewCambridge University Press. 2007.In this book, Christopher F. Zurn shows why a normative theory of deliberative democratic constitutionalism yields the best understanding of the legitimacy of constitutional review. He further argues that this function should be institutionalized in a complex, multi-location structure including not only independent constitutional courts but also legislative and executive self-review that would enable interbranch constitutional dialogue and constitutional amendment through deliberative civic cons…Read more
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22The Philosophy of Recognition: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (edited book)Lexington Books. 2009.This volume collects original, cutting-edge essays on the philosophy of recognition by international scholars eminent in the field. By considering the topic of recognition as addressed by both classical and contemporary authors, the volume explores the connections between historical and contemporary recognition research and makes substantive contributions to the further development of contemporary theories of recognition.
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361Social pathologies as second-order disordersIn Danielle Petherbridge (ed.), Axel Honneth: Critical Essays: With a Reply by Axel Honneth, Brill Academic. pp. 345-370. 2011.Aside from the systematic theory of recognition, Honneth’s work in the last decade has also centered around a less commented-upon theme: the critical social theoretic diagnosis of social pathologies. This paper claims first that his diverse diagnoses of specific social pathologies can be productively united through the conceptual structure evinced by second-order disorders, where there are substantial disconnects, of various kinds, between first-order contents and second-order reflexive understa…Read more
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35Recognition and freedom: Axel Honneth’s political thought (review)Critical Horizons 18 (2): 186-190. 2017.
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53Axel HonnethPolity. 2015.With his insightful and wide-ranging theory of recognition, Axel Honneth has decisively reshaped the Frankfurt School tradition of critical social theory. Combining insights from philosophy, sociology, psychology, history, political economy, and cultural critique, Honneth’s work proposes nothing less than an account of the moral infrastructure of human sociality and its relation to the perils and promise of contemporary social life. This book provides an accessible overview of Honneth’s main con…Read more
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25Perspectives on Habermas (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 40 (2): 274-275. 2002.Christopher F. Zurn - Perspectives on Habermas - Journal of the History of Philosophy 40:2 Journal of the History of Philosophy 40.2 274-275 Book Review Perspectives on Habermas Lewis Edwin Hahn, editor. Perspectives on Habermas. New York: Open Court, 2000. Pp. xiv + 586. Paper, $29.95. This collection of essays on the wide-ranging body of thought produced by Jürgen Habermas over the course of close to fifty years represents a significant lost opportunity. Although originally planned as a volume…Read more
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University of Massachusetts, BostonDepartment of Philosophy
Public Policy and Public AffairsProfessor
APA Eastern Division
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Social and Political Philosophy |
Philosophy of Law |
European Philosophy |
Critical Theory |
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Philosophy of Law |
Social and Political Philosophy |
European Philosophy |
Critical Theory |