"In contemporary debates on social justice, Honneth has focused less on the mere violation of formal rights and more on the social conditions that make individual and collective autonomy possible. According to his theory, autonomy is not a natural attribute of the subject but the outcome of successful processes of socialization grounded in relations of recognition. Society can thus be understood as an order of recognition: a set of practices and institutions that promise individuals the confirmation of their moral and social worth."
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Michele Olzi, "How Social Injustices Are Generated: Tai Ji Men and Axel Honneth’s Theory of Recognition", Bitter Winter (February 2026)
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