New Left Review I/220, November-December 1996

Jeffrey C. Alexander and Maria Pia Lara

Honneth’s New Critical Theory Of Recognition

Axel Honneth’s The Struggle for Recognition: The Moral Grammar of Social Conflicts represents at once an intriguing and revealing turn in the post-Habermasian tradition of the Frankfurt School, an important and original development in critical social theory more generally understood, and an ambitious and stimulating, if still inadequate, effort at grounding these theoretical ideas empirically. [1] Axel Honneth, The Struggle for Recognition: The Moral Grammar of Social Conflicts, trans. Joel Anderson Polity Press, Cambridge 1995, isbn 07456 18383, £39.50 hb,£12.95 pb.

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