Axel Honneth (Hg.), Ophelia Lindemann (Hg.), Stephan Voswinkel (Hg.)

Recognition has become a key concept in our times. Participants in social conflicts refer to them as struggles for recognition. Disadvantaged and oppressed social groups are demanding not only advancement in a material sense but recognition in society as well. The authors of this book shed light on the changes that have taken place in relationships of social recognition and inquire into the normative legitimation of demands for recognition. A change is emerging: traditional forms of recognition are coming under pressure, while a struggle is being waged over the recognition of new demands.

Axel Honneth
Axel Honneth is professor of social philosophy at Columbia and Frankfurt universities and director of the Institut für Sozialforschung (IfS) (Institute for Social Research) in Frankfurt.

Ophelia Lindemann
Ophelia Lindemann, MA, was a research assistant in the IfS's "Structural Change of Recognition in the 21st Century" project.

Stephan Voswinkel
Stephan Voswinkel has completed his postdoctoral thesis and is a research fellow at the IfS.

200 pages, paperback, 2011

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