The Barcelona Debate
Freedom
Opening Lecture by Axel Honneth
Debate
Axel Honneth, philosopher and sociologist, director of the Institut für Sozialforschung (Institute for Social Research) at the University of Frankfurt. He has recently published Freedom’s Right: The Social Foundations of Democratic Life (published in Spanish as El derecho de la libertad. Esbozo de una eticidad democrática – Katz / Clave intelectual, 2014).
Presented by: Vicenç Villatoro, director of the CCCB.
Opening lecture of the series "Wield the Word", in which will also participate Saskia Sassen, Fina Birulés, Albert Lladó, Manel Ollé, Isabella Gresser, Bo Stråth, Luc Boltanski, Montserrat Guibernau, Peter Wagner and Seyla Benhabib.
Presenters: Vicenç Villatoro
Participants: Axel Honneth
This activity is part of Wield the Word, The Barcelona Debate
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Axel Honneth is a philosopher and sociologist. A former assistant to Jürgen Habermas, he is presently deemed to be the most eminent figure of the so-called third generation of the Frankfurt School. His work is concerned with the problem of the struggle of the least prvileged groups for ...
