Der Sozialphilosoph Axel Honneth erläutert in seinem neuen Buch seine Theorie der Anerkennung und zeigt, wie sich damit die Vorstellung von Gerechtigkeit neu ausrichten und die Beziehung zwischen sozialer Reproduktion und Entwicklung einer eigenen Identität untersuchen lässt.

PrefaceI. Hegelian RootsFrom Desire to Recognition: Hegel's Grounding of Self-ConsciousnessThe Realm of Actualized Freedom: Hegel's Notion of a "Philosophy of Right"II. Systematic ConsequencesThe Fabric of Justice: On the Limits of Contemporary ProceduralismLabour and Recognition: A RedefinitionRecognition as Ideology: The Connection between Morality and PowerDissolutions of the Social: The Social Theory of Luc Boltanski and Laurent ThévenotPhilosophy as Social Research: David Miller's Theory of JusticeIII. Social and Theoretical ApplicationsRecognition between States: On the Moral Substrate ofInternational RelationsOrganized Self-Realisation: Paradoxes of IndividualisationParadoxes of Capitalist Modernisation: A Research Programme (with Martin Hartmann)IV. Psychoanalytical RamificationsThe Work of Negativity: A Recognition-TheoreticalRevision of PsychoanalysisThe I in the We: Recognition as a Driving Force of Group FormationFacets of the Presocial Self: A Rejoinder to Joel WhitebookDisempowering Reality: Secular Forms of Consolation