Here you can
listen to the opening keynote lecture of the conference, ‘The vicissitudes of
recognition: the legacy of J-J Rousseau’. It was given by Professor Axel
Honneth (Institute for Social Research, Frankfurt, and Columbia University), on
19 April 2012 at UCL.
Professor Honneth provided an overview of different interpretations of
Rousseau’s legacy in the 20th century. He argued that it was the original
insight of Rousseau, connecting the seemingly unrelated parts of his work, that
human beings are characterized not only by a drive for self-preservation, but
also by a need for social esteem and recognition which he called amour propre.
Professor Honneth surveyed the different solutions Rousseau offered for the
satisfaction of this need, and compared these remedies with those developed by
other authors such as Kant and Hegel. Source:
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