How to criticize? On Honneth’s method

Carleheden, Mikael

doi:10.1080/1600910x.2020.1779100

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“…However, instead of being normatively prescribing in an absolute way, this potential of sociology is explorative. Different ways of normative reasoning are required to solve different kinds of normative problems (Carleheden, 2020). This means that we constantly need to contextualize, maintain an empirically open attitude, and to critically interrogate our own presumptions and ask what they mean and if they are valid in each particular situation.…”

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Possibilities and Challenges in Education for Sustainable Development: The Case of Higher Education

Uggla,

Soneryd

2023

Journal of Education for Sustainable Development

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Sustainable development as a subject area and learning objective increasingly finds its way into the curriculum from pre-school to university level, and education and learning are emphasized as key drivers for sustainable development. At the same time, the sustainable development discourse has since its inception been met with critique, not least that it is a post-political discourse, which favours an instrumental view of knowledge and a simplified view of the relation between knowledge and action. In this article, we focus on the possibilities and challenges of teaching sustainable development in higher education. We argue that it is the formative role of higher education that is particularly important to explore in relation to the possibilities of education for sustainable development. In addition, we suggest that sociology can provide a good basis for both critical thinking and normative action, in ways that reaches beyond instrumental and narrow views of knowledge, human action and change.

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Possibilities and Challenges in Education for Sustainable Development: The Case of Higher Education

Uggla,

Soneryd

2023

Journal of Education for Sustainable Development

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“…We believe this perspective is useful for proceeding in the third way. However, Honneth himself does not include the Anthropocene conditions in his theory of brutalization, and he actually bluntly neglects ecological crisis in developing his theoretical framework (Carleheden, 2021). Therefore, to understand social conflicts in the Anthropocene, we suggest supplementing Honneth's theory of brutalization with Latour's recent work on ecological politics and social struggles 11 (Latour, 2017(Latour, , 2018.…”

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The ideal of freedom in the Anthropocene: A new crisis of legitimation and the brutalization of geo-social conflicts

Carleheden

Schultz

2022

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Modern social orders are legitimized by the ideal of freedom. Most conceptions of this ideal are theorized against the backdrop of nature understood as governed by its own laws beyond the realm of the social. However, such an understanding of nature is now being challenged by the ‘Anthropocene’ hypothesis. This article investigates the consequences of this hypothesis for freedom as an ideal legitimizing social order. We begin by discussing the conception of legitimation, after which we examine three classical notions of freedom (developed by Hobbes, Kant, and Hegel), in light of the Anthropocene. Following our claim that these notions all have severe weaknesses in view of the Anthropocene, we argue that modern social orders are facing a new legitimation crisis. Such a crisis, we suggest, involves a ‘brutalization of social conflicts’, which under the conditions of the Anthropocene assumes the form of geo-social conflict.

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Unchain the Beast! Pluralizing the Method of Theorizing

Carleheden

2024

Neue Soziologische Theorie

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How to criticize? On Honneth’s method

Cited by 4 publications

References 40 publications

Possibilities and Challenges in Education for Sustainable Development: The Case of Higher Education

Possibilities and Challenges in Education for Sustainable Development: The Case of Higher Education

The ideal of freedom in the Anthropocene: A new crisis of legitimation and the brutalization of geo-social conflicts

Unchain the Beast! Pluralizing the Method of Theorizing

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