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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a succinct analysis of Axel Honneth's thoughts on the concept of work and propose an approach granting it a more substantial role in social theory.

TL;DR: 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.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze Axel Honneth's theory against the background of some of the criticisms that Amy Allen levelled against it and conclude that his endeavor seems to partially compromise his ability to id...

TL;DR: In this article, the effectiveness of Adorno's concept of mimesis for an analysis of extreme violence and for a defence of democratic institutions against possible regre re-regimes is discussed.

Abstract: Introduction Drawing upon the tradition of the Frankfurt School critical social theory, over the decades Axel Honneth (2009a) has been developing one of the most fully-structured paradigms of recognition in the field of social philosophy, whose methodology he accurately reconstructs. In the first part of the paper, I will examine Honneth’s recognition paradigm insofar as it enables him to renovate this methodological framework. My examination has the specific objective to support a twofold hypothesis. On the one hand, I aim to outline a defense of Honneth’s consistent methodology against growing criticisms – especially, but not exclusively, related to recent appraisal of Freedom’s Right – which tend to see depletion of critical insights in the recent developments of his theory as compared with the results obtained in his early works. Unlike these critics, I contend that Honneth’s work is (methodologically) compatible with the Frankfurt school’s tradition and retains (and to a certain extent extends) its critical insights