The fragmented world of the social
Subtitle: essays in social and political philosophy
By: Axel Honneth ; edited by Charles W. Wright.
Contributors: Wright, Charles W., 1961-; Honneth, Axel, 1949-
Series: SUNY series in social and political thought
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
Subjects: Critical theory.; Ethics.; Sociology -- Philosophy.; Political science -- Philosophy.; Social sciences -- Philosophy.
Description: The essays in this book weave together insights and arguments from such diverse traditions as German critical theory, French philosophy and social theory, and recent Anglo-American moral and political theory, offering a unique approach to the political and theoretical consequences of the modernism/postmodernism discussion.

Through an analysis of central themes in classical Marxism and early critical theory, the author shows how recent work in a variety of traditions converges on the need to question familiar distinctions between material production and culture, the public and the private, and the political and the social, and to reconsider the conceptions of agency and power that have informed them.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-324) and index.
"Includes Axel Honneth's book Die zerrissene Welt des Sozialen"--T.p. verso.