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Axel Honneth
German philosopher (born 1949)
Axel Honneth (; German:[aksl̩ˈhɔnɛt]; born 18 July 1949) is a German philosopher who is the Professor for Social Philosophy at Goethe University Frankfurt[4] and the Jack B.
Weinstein Professor of the Humanities in the department of philosophy at Columbia University.[5] He was also director of the Institut für Sozialforschung (Institute for Social Research) in Frankfurt am Main, Germany between 2001 and 2018.
Biography
Honneth was born in Essen, West Germany, on 18 July 1949, studied in Bonn, Bochum, Berlin and Munich (under Jürgen Habermas), and taught at the Free University of Berlin and the New School before moving to the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University of Frankfurt in 1996.
He also held the Spinoza Chair of Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam in 1999.[6] Between 2001 and 2018 he was director of the Institute for Social Research, originally home to the so-called Frankfurt School