Negative freedom or integrated domination? Adorno versus Honneth.
According to Axel Honneth, Adorno's very idea of social critique is self‐defeating. It tries to account for what is wrong, deformed, or pathological without providing any positive yardstick. Honneth's idea of critique is a diagnosis of chronic dysfunctions in the relations of recognition upon which...
| Publicado en: | European Journal of Philosophy Vol. 28; no. 1; pp. 126 - 142 |
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