Freedom’s Right

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Freedom’s Right is a major work of social and political philosophy by Axel Honneth that reconstructs the concept of freedom within modern democratic societies through the lens of critical theory.

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instanceOf book
work of political philosophy
work of social philosophy
addresses normative foundations of modern institutions
aimsTo reconstruct the concept of freedom in modern democratic societies
analyzes democratic public sphere
family
market
arguesThat freedom is realized through social institutions
individual freedom depends on conditions of social freedom
modern institutions embody normative ideas of freedom
author Axel Honneth NERFINISHED
centralConcept institutionalized freedom
social freedom
spheres of recognition
countryOfOrigin Germany
critiques liberal conceptions of negative freedom
purely procedural conceptions of democracy
discipline political philosophy
social philosophy
social theory
englishTranslationPublicationYear 2014
hasForm monograph
influencedBy G. W. F. Hegel NERFINISHED
Georg Lukács NERFINISHED
Jürgen Habermas NERFINISHED
Karl Marx
Émile Durkheim NERFINISHED
mainTopic democracy
freedom
modern society
normative reconstruction
political freedom
recognition
social freedom
social justice
originalLanguage German
originalTitle Das Recht der Freiheit NERFINISHED
philosophicalSchool Frankfurt School NERFINISHED
philosophicalTradition Critical theory
proposes a theory of freedom grounded in social practices
publicationYear 2011
publisherOfEnglishEdition Polity Press NERFINISHED
relatedTo Hegelian social philosophy
The Struggle for Recognition NERFINISHED
setsInContext freedom within institutional structures of modernity
theoreticalApproach normative reconstruction of social institutions

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Axel Honneth notableWork Freedom’s Right