Fraser and Politics would be the first monograph on Nancy Fraser’s work – the first systematic reconstruction of a theoretical perspective that has exerted tremendous influence within the fields of Critical Theory, feminism and Marxism.
The book should demonstrate that Fraser’s theory is thoroughly political, that it is based on a “problem-based” methodology of developing conceptual tools that trace the structural origins of various economic and socio-cultural injustices as well as their interimbrication.
The volume purports to show that Fraser’s critical theory is a powerful and sophisticated analytical prism for gauging the breadth of empirical variety and depth of structural causality of injustice and domination in the “actually existing” capitalist democracies, and for inspiring political movements that struggle for emancipation.
One of the main aims of the present volume is to portray Fraser’s ideas for a deep structural transformation of the social order that should lead to a new form of socialist feminism, through the dialectics between the contradictions of capitalism (the care-indifferent and gendered character) and care ethics, thus forging a new alliance between emancipation and social protection.
Co-authored by a sociologist and a philosopher, one specialized in critical theory, the other in care ethics, this book stages a debate over how Fraser’s tridimensional approach to justice, opens the path to reimagining the promotion of rights beyond national borders, through a new cosmopolitan order that provides motivation for engaging in legal and political imagination to challenge injustice across the world.