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Zusatztext “A carefully wrought and provocative debate between philosophers with strong commitments to asking what a more just social life might be. This text will doubtless produce a spate of new and important scholarship in critical theory in its wake.” —Judith Butler “In this exciting dialogue! Nancy Fraser and Axel Honneth do not simply explore with perfect conceptual rigor the analogies and tensions of the paradigms of ‘equal distributrion’ and ‘struggle for recognition.’ They also demonstrate why engaged theory matters for collective practice. Their speculative effort will set the agenda for transnational debates of vital importance.” —Etienne Balibar “In this fascinating volume! two of the major theorists of our time battle it out over the question of redistribution versus recognition. The stakes are high: how might a critical theory of capitalist society be revivified in a manner that unites philosophy! politics! and social theory. This is engaged theoretical debate of the highest level.” —Simon Critchley Informationen zum Autor Nancy Fraser and Axel Honneth Klappentext A debate between two philosophers who hold different views on the relation of redistribution to recognition. Zusammenfassung In this debate political philosophers Fraser and Honneth set out to advance the discussion in political philosophy regarding the increasingly polarized political positions of redistribution or recognition! or more simply! class politics versus identity politics.
About the author
Alex Honneth is a Professor of Philosophy at both the University of Frankfurt and Columbia University. He is also the Director of the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Nancy Fraser is Loeb Professor of Philosophy and Politics at the New School for Social Research, Einstein Fellow of the city of Berlin, and holder of the "Global Justice" Chair at the Collège d’études mondiales in Paris. Her books include
Fortunes of Feminism;
Adding Insult to Injury;
Scales of Justice;
Justice Interruptus; and
Unruly Practices.
