Wednesday, December 18, 2024

New book: Nancy Fraser and Politics

Nancy Fraser and Politics

by Marjan Ivković & Zona Zarić

(Edinburgh University Press, 2024)

248 pages


Description

"Nancy Fraser and Politics" is a systematic reconstruction of the work of Nancy Fraser, a key contemporary figure of critical theory and socialist feminism. It argues that Fraser's critical theory is a powerful and sophisticated analytical prism for diagnosing the breadth of empirical variety and depth of structural causality of injustice and domination in the ‘actually existing’ capitalist democracies of today, and for informing and inspiring numerous political movements struggling for societal emancipation.

Ivković and Zarić demonstrate that a key aspect of Fraser’s critical theory - her structural approach to domination which traces the manifold empirical injustices to a common root cause - is a thread that runs through her entire opus.

Contents [preview]

Introduction: Nancy Fraser as a Critical Theorist [pdf]

1. The Theoretical and Political Coordinates of Fraser’s Perspective

2. Fraser’s Theory of Capitalism

3. The Complexity of Liberation: Fraser’s Feminism

4. The Normative Weight of Politics: Fraser’s Theory of the Public Sphere

5. Fraser on Emancipation as a Political Process and Institutional Form

Conclusion


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