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Reification
A New Look At An Old Idea
Axel Honneth, with Judith Butler, Raymond Geuss, and Jonathan Lear
Edited by Martin Jay
180 pages
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210x140mm
978-0-19-532046-6
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Hardback
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21 February 2008
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- Selling point: Honneth imaginatively invigorates the theory of reification with a timely redefinition of the theory of recognition
- Selling point: Honneth engages in dialogue with three very celebrated contemporary theorists from feminist, psychoanalytic and political theoretical perspectives
In the early 20th century, Marxist theory was enriched and rejuvenated by adopting the concept of reification, introduced by the Hungarian theorist Georg Lukács to identify and denounce the transformation of historical processes into ahistorical entities, human actions into things that seemed part of an immutable "second nature." For a variety of reasons, both theoretical and practical, the hopes placed in de-reification as a tool of revolutionary emancipation proved vain. In these original and imaginative essays, delivered as the Tanner Lectures at the
University of California, Berkeley in 2005, the distinguished third-generation Frankfurt School philosopher Axel Honneth attempts to rescue the concept of reification by recasting it in terms of the philosophy of recognition he has been developing over the past two decades. Three distinguished political and social theorists: Judith Butler, Raymond Geuss, and Jonathan Lear, respond with hard questions about the central anthropological premise of his argument, the assumption that prior to cognition there is a fundamental experience of intersubjective recognition that can provide a normative standard by which current social relations can be judged wanted. Honneth listens carefully to their criticism and provides a powerful defense of his
position.Readership: Political theorists, social theorists, people interested in Critical Theory and continental philosophy
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Axel Honneth, Professor, Institut für Sozialforschung, Frankfurt-am-Main, with Judith Butler, Raymond Geuss, and Jonathan Lear Edited by Martin Jay, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley
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"...these lectures draw on an impressively wide and varied range of ideas. They are continually engaging, thought provoking and - a rare blessing - a pleasure to read. Without doubt they will stimulate lively discussion of these important issues..." - Sean Sayers, Mind
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List of Contributors
Introduction
Martin Jay
Reification and Recognition: A New Look at an Old Idea
Axel Honneth
Comments
Judith Butler
Raymond Geuss
Jonathan Lear
Rejoinder
Axel Honneth
Index
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