5 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
American philosopher at Barnard/Columbia who is a leading interpreter of Hegel and Rousseau — and whose Rousseau's Theodicy of Self-Love and Freedom's Right are major works in the Hegelian social philosophy tradition — making him the academic philosopher most directly relevant to Jonathan Bi's Rousseau/Hegel interests.
Axel Honneth's 2011 book (translated from German) developing a social theory of freedom grounded in Hegel's Philosophy of Right — arguing that freedom is not negative (freedom from) or reflective (freedom of self-determination) but social (freedom in mutual recognition).
American philosopher at the University of Chicago who is one of the leading interpreters of Hegel and Nietzsche — and who extended Hegelian analysis to film and literature — making the German idealist tradition accessible to contemporary humanists.
Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic who synthesizes Hegel, Lacan, and Marx to analyze ideology, popular culture, and politics — the most widely read continental philosopher of his generation — known for finding Hegelian dialectics in Hollywood films and Lacanian desire in political events.
Axel Honneth's 1992 book reconstructing Hegel's theory of recognition as the foundation for a critical theory of society — arguing that the struggle for recognition (love, rights, solidarity) is the fundamental dynamic of social development and that social pathologies arise from its denial.