About Axel Honneth
Axel Honneth, born in 1949, is the Jack C. Weinstein Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University in New York. In 2015 he was awarded the Ernst Bloch Prize and in 2016 the Bruno Kreisky Prize for the political book for his work The Idea of Socialism. In 2021, he held his highly-acclaimed Benjamin Lectures in Berlin on the subject of this book.
