Bringing Émile Durkheim back in the renewal of Axel Honneth’s critical theory
In his last works, Axel Honneth refers abundantly to Emile Durkheim to update the claims of a critical theory in front of stakes in the contemporary development of the world of work. At first, we show in what the normative claims at Durkheim takes support on the sociological analysis; in second one time, us linger in the last work of Honneth, Freedom’s Right. The Social Foundations of Democratic Life, in particular in his analysis of the forms of institutionalization of the social freedom at Durkheim; the third part allows to show the convergence between Durkheim and Hegel on the theme of the work and the recognition; finally, the last part concentrates on the immanent criticism of the contemporary forms of the organization of the work in the Division of social work.