After Habermas: Applying Axel Honneth’s critical theory in accounting research

• Published in: Critical perspectives on accounting Vol. 57; pp. 39 - 55
• Main Author: Tweedie, Dale
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Ltd 01.12.2018
• Subjects: Critical theory; Habermas; Honneth; Integrated Reporting; Recognition; Resistance; Resistance; Habermas; Critical theory; Honneth; Recognition; Integrated Reporting

This paper argues Axel Honneth’s critical theory can advance critical accounting research, especially within the Frankfurt School tradition. As prior accounting scholars have shown, Frankfurt School critical theory aims to mobilize rationally-defensible norms embedded in, or ‘immanent’ to, extant so...