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Acknowledgements<br /><br />Preface<br /><br /><br /><br />Part I: Forms of Social Freedom<br /><br /><br /><br />1. The Depths of Recognition<br /><br />The legacy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau<br /><br /><br /><br />2. On the Poverty of Our Freedom<br /><br />Relevance and limits of the Hegelian ethical system<br /><br /><br /><br />3. The Normativity of Ethical Life<br /><br /><br /><br />4. Hegel and Marx<br /><br />A reassessment after one century<br /><br /><br /><br />5. Economy or Society?<br /><br />The greatness and limits of Marx’s theory of capitalism<br /><br /><br /><br />6. Three, Not Two Concepts of Liberty<br /><br />A proposal to enlarge our moral self-understanding<br /><br /><br /><br />Part II: Deformations of Social Freedom<br /><br /><br /><br />7. The Diseases of Society<br /><br />Approaching a nearly impossible concept<br /><br /><br /><br />8. Education and the Democratic Public Sphere<br /><br />A neglected chapter of political philosophy<br /><br /><br /><br />9. Democracy and the Division of Labour<br /><br />A blind spot in political philosophy<br /><br /><br /><br />10. Childhood<br /><br />Inconsistencies in our liberal imagination<br /><br /><br /><br />Part III. Sources of Social Freedom<br /><br /><br />11. Denaturalizations of the Lifeworld<br /><br />On the threefold use of the humanities<br /><br /><br /><br />12. Is There an Emancipatory Interest?<br /><br />An attempt to answer critical theory's most fundamental question<br /><br /><br /><br />13. A History of Moral Self-Correction<br /><br />Tracing European solidarity<br /><br /><br /><br />Notes<br /><br />Index

“This collection of superbly translated essays demonstrates once again that Axel Honneth is not only an academic philosopher of the first rank but also a public intellectual of international significance. The astounding range of essays included here – on topics from the contradictions in our understanding of childhood to the history of European solidarity to the relation between education and democracy – will be of supreme interest to philosophers and non-philosophers alike who have some inkling of the poverty of both our dominant conceptions of freedom and of the social institutions that are grounded in them.”<br /><b>Frederick Neuhouser, Barnard College, Columbia University</b><br /><br />“These powerful and incisive essays are a major contribution to the contemporary struggle against fetishized conceptions of individual freedom. Their relevance in a world trying desperately to escape the impasse of neoliberalism is clear.”<br /><b>Raymond Geuss, Professor (Emeritus), University of Cambridge</b>

<b>Axel Honneth</b> is Jack C. Weinstein Professor of the Humanities at the Department of Philosophy of Columbia University.

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