Volker Schmitz is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Political Science at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA

1. Introduction.- 2. Reciprocity and Self-Restriction in Elementary Recognition.- 3. Reifying Reification: A Critique of Axel Honneth's Theory of Reification.- 4. The Recognition of No-Body.- 5. Bourgeois Illusions: Honneth on the Ruling Ideas of Capitalist Societies.- 6. Losing Sight of Power: The Inadequacy of Axel Honneth's Theory of the Market and Democracy.- 7. Axel Honneth and the Tradition of Radical Reformism.- 8. Can Honneth's Theory Account for a Critique of Instrumental Reason? Capitalism and the Pathologies of Negative Freedom.- 9. Critical Theory Derailed: Paradigm Fetishism and Critical Liberalism in Honneth (and Habermas).- 10. The Failure of the Recognition Paradigm in Critical Theory.- 11. The Mirror of Transformation: Recognition and Its Dimensions after Honneth.