Die Idee des Sozialismus. Versuch einer Aktualisierung
Publisher: Suhrkamp
Germany
German
Fiction
2017
In this lucid political-philosophical essay, Axel Honneth argues that the idea of socialism has lost its luster because its theoretical assumptions stem from the industrial era and are no longer convincing in our contemporary post-industrial societies. Only if we manage to replace these assumptions with a concept of history and society that corresponds to our current experiences will we be able to restore confidence in a project whose fundamental idea remains as relevant today as it was a century ago, the idea of an economy that realises freedom in solidarity.