Author: Hans Arentshorst

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07. Social freedom in contemporary capitalism: A reconstruction of Axel Honneth’s normative approach to the economy

2015

This paper discusses two related issues, namely how to adequately describe the economy within the framework of a critical social theory, and how to understand the interrelation between the socio-economic and political dimensions of democracy. Concerning the first issue Honneth stresses the moral quality of social integration, and concerning the second issue he develops a conception of ‘democratic Sittlichkeit.’ In reconstructing these issues, both the promises and problems of Honneth’s work for analyzing and criticizing contemporary developments in the economy are explored. The paper concludes that the unresolved challenge for Honneth is not to succumb to a nostalgic return to 19th century …

PoliticsIndividualismSocial integrationEconomyCritical theorymedia_common.quotation_subjectNormativeHegelianismSociologyCapitalismDemocracymedia_commonStudies in Social and Political Thought

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Towards a reconstructive approach in political philosophy : Rosanvallon and Honneth on the pathologies of todays democracy

2016

This paper compares the democratic theories of Pierre Rosanvallon and Axel Honneth. The aim is to show how their work could form the basis of a ‘reconstructivist’ approach in political philosophy that rehabilitates the insights of 19th-century thinkers such as Guizot and Hegel concerning the benefits of combining political philosophy with history and sociology. Whereas the dominant procedural approaches in political philosophy tend to disconnect normative theory from the actual study of society and its history, Rosanvallon and Honneth argue that in order to understand the problems that face our democratic societies today we need a closer connection between theory and practice. Both have the…

Cultural StudiesHistorySociology and Political Sciencedemocracyrepresentationmedia_common.quotation_subject05 social sciencesRepresentation (arts)050601 international relationsDemocracy0506 political scienceEpistemologyPierrePolitical Science and International RelationsAxelRosanvallon050602 political science & public administrationHonnethSociologyPolitical philosophySocial sciencerecognitionta611media_commonThesis Eleven

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Immanente Kritik und soziales Leben. Selbsttransformative Praxis nach Hegel und Dewey

2019

Hannah Arendt famously claimed that the modern ‘rise of the social’ has resulted in a problematic marginalization of ‘the political’ and political philosophy. Interestingly, contemporary Critical T...

PhilosophyPoliticsPhilosophy060302 philosophy05 social sciences050602 political science & public administration06 humanities and the artsPolitical philosophyTheology0603 philosophy ethics and religion0506 political scienceInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies

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