Refuting the argument to choose between "the politics of recognition" and the "politics of redistribution," Justice Interruptus integrates the best aspects of both. ********************************************************* ** What does it mean to think critically about politics at a time when inequality is increasing worldwide, when struggles for the recognition of difference are eclipsing struggles for social equality, and when we lack any credible vision of an alternative to the present order? Philosopher Nancy Fraser claims that the key is to overcome the false oppositions of "postsocialist" commonsense. Refuting the view that we must choose between "the politics of recognition" and the "politics of redistribution," Fraser argues for an integrative approach that encompasses the best aspects of both.
| Acknowledgments | ||
| Introduction: Justice Interruptus | 1 | |
| 1 | From Redistribution to Recognition? Dilemmas of Justice in a "Postsocialist" Age | 11 |
| 2 | After the Family Wage: A Postindustrial Thought Experiment | 41 |
| 3 | Rethinking the Public Sphere: A Contribution to the Critique of Actually Existing Democracy | 69 |
| 4 | Sex, Lies, and the Public Sphere: Reflections on the Confirmation of Clarence Thomas | 99 |
| 5 | A Genealogy of 'Dependency': Tracing a Keyword of the U.S. Welfare State | 121 |
| 6 | Structuralism or Pragmatics? On Discourse Theory and Feminist Politics | 151 |
| 7 | Multiculturalism, Antiessentialism, and Radical Democracy: A Genealogy of the Current Impasse in Feminist Theory | 173 |
| 8 | Culture, Political Economy, and Difference: On Iris Young's Justice and the Politics of Difference | 189 |
| 9 | False Antitheses: A Response to Seyla Benhabib and Judith Butler | 207 |
| 10 | Beyond the Master/Subject Model: On Carole Pateman's The Sexual Contract | 225 |
| Index | 237 |
Overview
Refuting the argument to choose between "the politics of recognition" and the "politics of redistribution," Justice Interruptus integrates the best aspects of both. ********************************************************* ** What does it mean to think critically about politics at a time when inequality is increasing worldwide, when struggles for the recognition of difference are eclipsing struggles for social equality, and when we lack any credible vision of an alternative to the present order? Philosopher Nancy...