Reification A New Look at an Old Idea

"[These lectures] are continually engaging, thought provoking, and - rare blessing - a pleasure to read. Without doubt they will stimulate lively discussion of these important issues." - Sean Sayers, Mind"Honneth has confirmed in this work what he has established in those previous to it; that his work is of the highest order, at once rigorous, serious, and constructive, pushing the edges of critical theory, and his focus on the concept of recognition offers exacting critique, penetrating analysis, and hopeful transformation of our contemporary social and political order. Reification is a must-read for those both within and outside of social theory circles, who, by having a new look at an old idea, will be presented at once with a creative proposal to reform political and social institutions with the persistence of recognition and yet will remain troubles by then with the persistence of reification." - Michael Sohn, Political Theology