Recognition and Freedom ─ Axel Honneth Political Thought

Recognition and Freedom offers up-to-date discussions of Axel Honneth’s political thought by ten experts in the field. It also includes an interview with Honneth and an essay by him on education and democracy, previously unpublished in English.

Jonas Jakobsen is Assistant professor of Philosophy at the University of Tromso, Norway. He has published several articles on social and political philosophy, includingEducation, Recognition, and the Sami People of Norway (in Niedrig & Ydesen: Writing Postcolonial Histories of Intercultural Education, Peter Lang, 2011).Odin Lysaker holds a PhD in Philosophy and is Associate Professor at the University of Agder, Norway. He has published particularly in ethics and political philosophy, including Humanity in Times of Crisis: Hannah Arendt’s Political Existentialism (in Guttorm Floistad (ed.), Philosophy of Justice, Springer, 2014).