The book is about the basis of Hegel's model of a "struggle for recognition", the foundations for a social theory with normative content. The second, theoretical part of the book is to develop an empirical version of Hegelian idea by drawing on the social psychology of G.H. Mead. In this way, intersubjectivity concept of the person emerges, in with the possibility of an undistorted relation to …
"Recoggnition" has become a veritable keyword of our time, but its relation to "redistribution" remains undertheorized. This volume remedies the lacuna by staging a sustained debate between to philosophers, one North American, the other European, who hold different views of the matter. Highly attuned to contemporary politics, the exchange between Nancy Fraser and Axel Honneth constitutes a rigo…