New venue: Päätalo A34, behind/above the dining hall.

This seminar is open for interested PhD students in any discipline, as well as master’s students. (and will be ok for the social philosophy FILA9 as well). The seminar will meet weekly, and read Axel Honneth’s articles, e.g. from the collection The I in We. (Articles by the classics that he comments on, and by his critics, will form the background and further reading.) The first meeting will be on 22nd January, when we will discuss the practicalities.

Axel Honneth is the director of Frankfurt Institute for Social Research and a professor at Columbia University. His work focuses on social-political and moral philosophy, especially relations of power, recognition, and respect. One of his core arguments is for the priority of intersubjective relationships of recognition in understanding social relations. This includes non- and mis-recognition as a basis of social and interpersonal conflict. For instance, grievances regarding the
distribution of goods in society are ultimately struggles for recognition.

Axel Honneth will visit Finland (Helsinki) at 23rd May 2014.
For more info, contact arto.laitinen@uta.fi