Freedom's Right
Honneth, Axel (Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat, Frankfurt am Main)
The theory of justice is one of the most intensely debated areas of contemporary philosophy. Most theories of justice, however, have only attained their high level of justification at great cost. By focusing on purely normative, abstract principles, they become detached from the sphere that constitutes their "field of application" - namely, social reality.
Axel Honneth proposes a different approach. He seeks to derive the currently definitive...