Review of Honneth's "Pathologies of Reason"

From "Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews" (October 14, 2010):

Professor David Owen (Southampton) reviews

"Pathologies of Reason: On the Legacy of Critical Theory" by Axel Honneth (Columbia University Press, 2009).

See an excerpt from Chapter 2 of Axel Honneth's book: "A Social Pathology of Reason. On the Intellectual Legacy of Critical Theory" (pdf).

David Owen is Professor of Social and Political Philosophy at University of Southampton. He is co-editor of "Recognition and Power. Axel Honneth and the Tradition of Critical Social Theory" (Cambridge University Press, 2007).