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D-Index
66
Citations
25963
World Ranking
945
National Ranking
447

Axel Honneth publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Axel Honneth sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 278 publications — 84th percentile

84% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Axel Honneth D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Axel Honneth sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 66 D-Index — 88th percentile

88% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Axel Honneth is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States and focuses research primarily within the social sciences and arts and humanities. Their main fields of study include sociology and political science, political science and international relations, and philosophy, with additional work touching on general health professions and literature and literary theory.

Research topics covered extensively by Honneth include:

  • Political Philosophy and Ethics
  • Philosophical Ethics and Theory
  • Economic and Social Issues
  • Political Economy and Marxism
  • Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy
  • Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory
  • Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics

Honneth has a notable publication record that includes recent papers such as:

  • "You" or "We": The limits of the second-person perspective, 2021, European Journal of Philosophy
  • 'Labour', A Brief History of a Modern Concept, 2022, Philosophy
  • The Institute for Social Research at 100, 2023, Constellations
  • The Working Sovereign: A conversation with Axel Honneth, 2023, Journal of Classical Sociology
  • Democracy and Fair Labor Conditions, 2023, Journal of Business Ethics

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Hans Joas
  • Robin Celikates
  • Rahel Jaeggi
  • Hubertus Buchstein
  • Peter E. Gordon

Their works have been published repeatedly in venues such as:

  • Constellations
  • European Journal of Philosophy
  • Journal of Classical Sociology
  • Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie
  • Journal of Business Ethics

In addition to journal articles, Honneth has authored books published by prominent academic presses. Titles include:

  • Recognition, Cambridge University Press, 2020
  • The Pathologies of Individual Freedom, Princeton University Press, 2021
  • Agire sociale e natura umana, Rosenberg & Sellier, 2023

Overall, Axel Honneth's scholarship involves a broad engagement with political philosophy, ethics, and social theory, contributing to both contemporary debates and historical analysis within these domains.

Best Publications

  • The Struggle for Recognition. The Moral Grammar of Social Conflicts

    Thelma McCormack;Axel Honneth

  • Redistribution or Recognition?: A Political-Philosophical Exchange

    Nancy Fraser;Axel Honneth;Joel Golb;James Ingram

  • Kampf um Anerkennung

    Axel Honneth

  • Autonomy, Vulnerability, Recognition, and Justice

    Joel Anderson;Axel Honneth

  • The struggle for recognition

    Axel Honneth

  • Disrespect: The Normative Foundations of Critical Theory

    Axel Honneth

  • Integrity and Disrespect: Principles of a Conception of Morality Based on the Theory of Recognition

    Axel Honneth

  • La sociedad del desprecio

    Axel Honneth

  • Recognition and justice: outline of a plural theory of justice

    Axel Honneth

  • Recognition or Redistribution

    Axel Honneth

  • Organized Self-Realization: Some Paradoxes of Individualization

    Axel Honneth

  • Paradoxes of Capitalism

    Martin Hartmann;Axel Honneth

  • The Critique of Power: Reflective Stages in a Critical Social Theory

    Axel Honneth

  • Reification: A New Look At An Old Idea

    Axel Honneth;Martin Jay

  • The I in We: Studies in the Theory of Recognition

    Axel Honneth

  • Umverteilung oder Anerkennung? Eine politisch-philosophische Kontroverse

    Nancy Fraser;Axel Honneth;Burckhardt Wolf

  • I—Axel Honneth: Invisibility: On the Epistemology of ‘Recognition’

    Axel Honneth

  • Grounding Recognition: A Rejoinder to Critical Questions

    Axel Honneth

  • El reconocimiento como ideología

    Axel Honneth

  • Freedom's Right: The Social Foundations of Democratic Life

    Axel Honneth

  • Pathologies of Reason: On the Legacy of Critical Theory

    Axel Honneth

  • The Fragmented World of the Social: Essays in Social and Political Philosophy

    Pablo de Greiff;Axel Honneth;Charles W. Wright

  • Social Action and Human Nature.

    Ladislav Holy;Axel Honneth;Hans Joas;Raymond Meyer

  • Philosophical Interventions in the Unfinished Project of Enlightenment

    Axel Honneth;William Rehg

Frequent Co-Authors

Nancy Fraser
Nancy Fraser New School
Claus Offe
Claus Offe Hertie School
Jacques Rancière
Jacques Rancière Paris 8 University
Jürgen Habermas
Jürgen Habermas Goethe University Frankfurt
Robert B. Pippin
Robert B. Pippin University of Chicago
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Judith Butler
Judith Butler University of California, Berkeley
John McDowell
John McDowell University of Pittsburgh
Alain Touraine
Alain Touraine École Normale Supérieure

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