Journal for contemporary philosophy
The first issue of this year contains two engaging dossiers. First, there is a series of contributions in response to Axel Honneth's Das Recht der Freiheit and its soon-to-be-published English translation. René Gabriëls, Thomas Nys, Beate Rössler, Joel Anderson, Bert van den Brink, Rutger Claassen and Yolande Jansen enter into a debate with Honneth and critically discuss his recent efforts to actualize Hegel's philosophy of right. Axel Honneth responds to this discussion in an original contribution that further articulates and develops his arguments. In this way the dossier provides an engrossing perspective on contemporary attempts to bring together normative and sociological analyses of freedom and its incomplete institutionalization. Krisis-editor Robin Celikates opens the dossier with an introduction. The second dossier focusses on the contemporary politicization of culture, and in particular on how it has taken shape in the Netherlands. In lieu of a seminar held at the University of Tilburg last year, Krisis presents essays by René Boomkens, Sjoerd van Tuinen and Merijn Oudenampsen. Each essay approaches the nexus of politics and culture differently, but all of them provide insights into the way in which culture has become an insistent political problem. This entails not only the culturalization of politics, but also a new struggle over political culture.
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