{"product_id":"the-i-in-we-9780745652337","title":"The I in We","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this volume Axel Honneth deepens and develops his highly influential theory of recognition, showing how it enables us both to rethink the concept of justice and to offer a compelling account of the relationship between social reproduction and individual identity formation.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Drawing on his reassessment of Hegel's practical philosophy, Honneth argues that our conception of social justice should be redirected from a preoccupation with the principles of distributing goods to a focus on the measures for creating symmetrical relations of recognition. This theoretical reorientation has far-reaching implications for the theory of justice, as it obliges this theory to engage directly with problems concerning the organization of work and with the ideologies that stabilize relations of domination.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In the final part of this volume Honneth shows how the theory of recognition provides a fruitful and illuminating way of exploring the relation between social reproduction an\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e I. Hegelian Roots\u003cbr\u003e From Desire to Recognition: Hegel's Grounding of Self-Consciousness\u003cbr\u003e The Realm of Actualized Freedom: Hegel's Notion of a \"Philosophy of Right\"\u003cbr\u003e II. Systematic Consequences\u003cbr\u003e The Fabric of Justice: On the Limits of Contemporary Proceduralism\u003cbr\u003e Labour and Recognition: A Redefinition\u003cbr\u003e Recognition as Ideology: The Connection between Morality and Power\u003cbr\u003e Dissolutions of the Social: The Social Theory of Luc Boltanski and Laurent Thévenot\u003cbr\u003e Philosophy as Social Research: David Miller's Theory of Justice\u003cbr\u003e III. Social and Theoretical Applications\u003cbr\u003e Recognition between States: On the Moral Substrate of\u003cbr\u003e International Relations\u003cbr\u003e Organized Self-Realisation: Paradoxes of Individualisation\u003cbr\u003e Paradoxes of Capitalist Modernisation: A Research Programme (with Martin Hartmann)\u003cbr\u003e IV. Psychoanalytical Ramifications\u003cbr\u003e The Work of Negativity: A Recognition-Theoretical\u003cbr\u003e Revision of Psychoanalysis\u003cbr\u003e The I in the We: Recognition as a Driving Force of Group Formation\u003cbr\u003e Facets of the Presocial Self: A Rejoinder to Joel Whitebook\u003cbr\u003e Disempowering Reality: Secular Forms of Consolation","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48865705951575,"sku":"9780745652337","price":18.04,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780745652337.jpg?v=1722275195","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-i-in-we-9780745652337","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}