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.
Marjan Ivković is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Belgrade, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory. Zona Zarić is Philosopher and Research Fellow at the University of Belgrade, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, and Lecturer at The American University of Paris.
Introduction: Nancy Fraser as a Critical Theorist1. The Theoretical and Political Coordinates of Fraser’s Perspective2. Fraser’s Theory of Capitalism3. The Complexity of Liberation: Fraser’s Feminism4. The Normative Weight of Politics: Fraser’s Theory of the Public Sphere5. Fraser on Emancipation as a Political Process and Institutional FormConclusionBibliographyIndex
This powerful and highly original study is the first to give a comprehensive, integrated analysis and assessment of the work of Nancy Fraser, which does full justice to both strands of her work, her feminism, and her commitment to developing the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School.