Angella, Marco2020-08-142020-08-142019Angella, M. 2019, 'Axel Honneth, reification, and “Nature”', Radical Philosophy Review, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 1-30. https://doi.org/10.5840/radphilrev2018122791.1388-4441 (print)1569-1659 (online)10.5840/radphilrev2018122791http://hdl.handle.net/2263/75752I begin by briefly reconstructing Honneth’s concept of reification. His paradigm gives the reification of the non-human environment a marginal position in comparison to the reification of human beings, thereby detracting from its explanatory and critical potential. In order to avoid this outcome, I subsequently present a paradigm of subject identity formation in which not only affectively-based intersubjective interactions but also affectively-based interactions with the non-human environment are, in both a “genetic” and a “conceptual” sense, essential to establish an objective and meaningful relationship with external reality. On the basis of this paradigm a closer connection can be identified between the reification of human beings and the reification of the non-human environment—a connection in which the reification of the latter may reinforce human reification.en© Radical Philosophy ReviewSocial philosophyPolitical philosophyContinental philosophyAxel HonnethReificationPostprint Article