Professor Axel Honneth is Jack C. Weinstein Professor for the Humanities in the Department of Philosophy at Columbia University; Director of the Institute for Social Research, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main (since 2001); and C4-Professor of Social Philosophy, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main (since 1996). From 1983 to 1989 he was „Hochschulassistent“ (scientific assistant) to Prof. Dr. Jürgen Habermas, Dept. of Philosophy, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt/M.; from 1982 to 1983 he had a Research Grant with Prof. Dr. Jürgen Habermas, Max-Planck-Institute for Social Sciences, Starnberg.
Among his many, excellent books, are The I in the We, Polity Press (forthcoming), Das Recht der Freiheit (Suhrkamp Verlag, 2011), The Pathologies of Individual Freedom: Hegel`s Social Theory (Princeton University Press, 2010), Pathologies of Reason: On the Legacy of Critical Theory (Columbia University Press, 2009), Reification: A New Look at an Old Idea (Oxford University Press, 2008), Disrespect: The Normative Foundations of Critical Theory (Polity Press, 2007), Redistribution or Recognition?: A Political– Philosophical Exchange, co-authored with Nancy Fraser (Verso Press, 2003), The Struggle for Recognition: The Moral Grammar of Social Conflicts (MIT Press 1996), and The Critique of Power: Reflective Stages in a Critical Social Theory (MIT Press, 1991), which explores the affinities between the Frankfurt School and Michel Foucault.