Nancy Fraser and Politics
Explores Nancy Fraser’s political thought and her theory of capitalism as a comprehensive societal order
- Reconstructs Nancy Fraser’s critical theory and socialist feminism
- Explains Fraser’s theorization of capitalism as an institutionalized social order
- Demonstrates the unique potentials of Fraser’s work for informing transformative political action
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.
Introduction: Nancy Fraser as a Critical Theorist
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
Bibliography
Index
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.
This illuminating monograph offers a comprehensive study of Nancy Fraser's work, set within a broader historical and theoretical context. The most striking feature of Nancy Fraser and Politics is the place it gives to the role of care work - how these undervalued and underpaid activities, mostly performed by women and people or color, sustain society while being exploited by what Fraser calls "cannibal capitalism". Readers of this remarkable book will gain a deeper understanding of Fraser's role in reframing feminism, care ethics, and critical theory altogether, and the enduring relevance of her thought to ongoing struggles for social justice.
Ivković and Zarić provide a comprehensive and thorough analysis of Fraser’s work, highlighting its timeliness for addressing today's problems. This book will be of particular interest to those working in fields related to social and political thought, feminist philosophy, and women and gender studies.
