PHILOSOPHER

Axel Honneth

1949 - Today

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Axel Honneth (; German: [aksl̩ 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Axel Honneth has received more than 272,883 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Axel Honneth is the 542nd most popular philosopher (down from 498th in 2019), the 1,501st most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,378th in 2019) and the 72nd most popular German Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Axel Honneth ranks 542 out of 1,267. Before him are Georges Canguilhem, Zeno of Sidon, Pietro d'Abano, Paul Grice, Karl Korsch, and Chaïm Perelman. After him are Kenneth Waltz, Al-Baydawi, Jan Patočka, Myia, Roger Scruton, and Jacques Ellul.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Axel Honneth ranks 96. Before him are Josephine Chaplin, Joachim Sauer, Twiggy, Han Duck-soo, Salif Keita, and Bo Xilai. After him are Alan García, Émerson Leão, Lasse Virén, Elizabeth George, Valentina Matviyenko, and Gregg Popovich.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Axel Honneth ranks 1,501 out of 7,253. Before him are Wolf Biermann (1936), Margravine Louise Charlotte of Brandenburg (1617), Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1818), Maurice, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1572), Louis I, Grand Duke of Baden (1763), and Johann Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (1530). After him are Franciscus Sylvius (1614), Fritz Thyssen (1873), Arthur Auwers (1838), Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel (1650), Peter von Cornelius (1784), and Jupp Derwall (1927).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Axel Honneth ranks 72. Before him are Karl Löwith (1897), Annemarie Schimmel (1922), Eduard Spranger (1882), Hans Blumenberg (1920), Hans Vaihinger (1852), and Karl Korsch (1886). After him are Eric Voegelin (1901), Andreas Karlstadt (1486), Johann Bernhard Basedow (1723), Ludwig Büchner (1824), Conrad Celtes (1459), and Karl Christian Friedrich Krause (1781).

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