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Axel Honneth

1949 - Today

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Axel Honneth (; German: [ˈaksl̩ ˈhɔnɛt]; born 18 July 1949) is a German philosopher who is the Professor for Social Philosophy at Goethe University Frankfurt and the Jack B. Weinstein Professor of the Humanities in the department of philosophy at Columbia University. He was also director of the Institut für Sozialforschung (Institute for Social Research) in Frankfurt am Main, Germany between 2001 and 2018. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Axel Honneth is the 509th most popular philosopher (up from 542nd in 2019), the 1,414th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,501st in 2019) and the 64th most popular German Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Axel Honneth ranks 509 out of 1,267. Before him are Homi K. Bhabha, Victor Cousin, Adam Ferguson, Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda, Anania Shirakatsi, and Nelson Goodman. After him are A. J. Ayer, Kenneth Waltz, Valentinus, Thomas Nagel, Johann Christoph Gottsched, and Sergei Bulgakov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Axel Honneth ranks 103. Before him are Annie Leibovitz, Philippe Starck, Homi K. Bhabha, Quini, Morten Olsen, and Stephen McKinley Henderson. After him are Angie Bowie, Josip Bozanić, Walid Jumblatt, Valentina Matviyenko, Göran Persson, and Ward Cunningham.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Axel Honneth ranks 1,414 out of 7,253. Before him are Philipp Franz von Siebold (1796), Maria Josepha Amalia of Saxony (1803), Else Lasker-Schüler (1869), Arnold van Gennep (1873), Hans Werner Henze (1926), and Alfred Krupp (1812). After him are Anne Christine of Sulzbach, Princess of Piedmont (1704), Philipp Ludwig, Count Palatine of Neuburg (1547), Wilhelm Groener (1867), Thea von Harbou (1888), John B. Goodenough (1922), and Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (1849).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Axel Honneth ranks 64. Before him are Franz Rosenzweig (1886), Paul Natorp (1854), Leo Strauss (1899), Ernst Troeltsch (1865), Hermann Lotze (1817), and Johannes Althusius (1563). After him are Karl Löwith (1897), Ludwig Büchner (1824), Karl-Otto Apel (1922), Carl Stumpf (1848), Annemarie Schimmel (1922), and Albert of Saxony (1316).

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