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The Pathologies of Individual Freedom : Hegel's Social Theory /

"This is a penetrating reinterpretation and defense of Hegel's social theory as an alternative to reigning liberal notions of social justice. The eminent German philosopher Axel Honneth rereads Hegel's Philosophy of Right to show how it diagnoses the pathologies of the overcommitment...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Honneth, Axel, 1949- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Alemán
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2016.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Hegel's Philosophy of right as a theory of justice
  • The idea of individual freedom : intersubjective conditions of autonomy
  • "Right" in the Philosophy of right : necessary spheres of self-realization
  • The connection between the theory of justice and the diagnosis of the age
  • Suffering from indeterminacy : pathologies of individual freedom
  • "Liberation" from suffering : the therapeutic significance of "ethical life"
  • The theory of ethical life as a normative theory of modernity
  • Self-realization and recognition : conditions of "ethical life"
  • The over-institutionalization of "ethical life" : problems of the Hegelian approach.