Axel Honneth, Reification, and "Nature"
Abstrak
In a recent work (Honneth 2008), the German philosopher Axel Honneth attempts to renovate the concept of reification starting from a critique of its best-known, classical version Lukács (1972, 83-222). Disconnecting it from its link with the capitalist market, countering the tendency to use it to designate a phenomenon embracing “the entirety of capitalist social life,” and removing the speculative notes it inherited from idealistic philosophy, Honneth (2008, 21-28; 76-79) helps reintroduce an important tool for social criticism into the philosophic field. He does so with his “elementary” notion of recognition that constitutes the anthropologic-philosophical basis of his thought. In this article, I begin by reconstructing Honneth’s position on reification, showing its significance not only for the relationship between human beings, but also for the interaction between human beings and the non-human environment. Honneth’s model gives the
Topik & Kata Kunci
Penulis (1)
Marco Angella
Akses Cepat
- Tahun Terbit
- 2019
- Bahasa
- en
- Total Sitasi
- 1×
- Sumber Database
- Semantic Scholar
- DOI
- 10.5840/RADPHILREV2018122791
- Akses
- Open Access ✓