2 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 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.