Axel Honneth is a German philosopher working in the tradition of critical theory, who is the Professor for Social Philosophy at Goethe University Frankfurt and the Jack B. Weinstein Professor of the Humanities in the department of philosophy at Columbia University.
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Social philosophy is primarily concerned with determining and discussing processes of social decelopment that can be viewed as misdevelopments, disorders or "social pathologies.
Disrespect: The Normative Foundations of Critical Theory (2007), p. 4
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Achille MbembeAlso won Ernst Bloch Award
Richard R. SchrockAlso won honorary doctor of the University of Rennes I
Rafael AlbertiAlso won honorary doctorate of the Bordeaux Montaigne University
Roald HoffmannAlso won honorary doctor of the University of Rennes I
Joy HarjoAlso won honorary doctorate of the Bordeaux Montaigne University
Seyla BenhabibAlso won Ernst Bloch AwardAbout this person
Axel Honneth is a German philosopher working in the tradition of critical theory, who is the Professor for Social Philosophy at Goethe University Frankfurt and the Jack B. Weinstein Professor of the Humanities in the department of philosophy at Columbia University. He directed the University of Frankfurt Institute for Social Research between 2001 and 2018.
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