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A conversation in critical theory. A fresh look at some of the big questions surrounding capitalism by two leading critical theorists.

In this important new book, Nancy Fraser and Rahel Jaeggi take a fresh look at the big questions surrounding the peculiar social form known as "capitalism, " upending many of our commonly held assumptions about what capitalism is and how to subject it to critique. They show how, throughout its history, various regimes of capitalism have relied on a series of institutional separations between economy and polity, production and social reproducti...

This title diagnoses the contemporary "post-socialist" condition and provides a new framework for theories of Utopia and justice.

A wonderfully rich and insightful collection of well-integrated essays on important current thinkers and social movements." -Martin Jay University of California, BerkeleyUnruly Practices brings together a series of widely discussed essays in feminism and social theory. Read together, they constitute a sustained critical encounter with leading European and American approaches to social theory. In addition, Nancy Fraser develops a new and origin...

Unruly Practices brings together a series of widely discussed essays in feminism and social theory. Read together, they constitute a sustained critical encounter with leading European and American approaches to social theory.

Is Habermas's concept of the public sphere still relevant in an age of globalization, when the transnational flows of people and information have become increasingly intensive and when the nation-state can no longer be taken granted as the natural frame for social and political debate? This is the question posed with characteristic acuity by Nancy Fraser in her influential article 'Transnationalizing the Public Sphere?' Challenging careless us...

Is Habermas's concept of the public sphere still relevant in an age of globalization, when the transnational flows of people and information have become increasingly intensive and when the nation-state can no longer be taken granted as the natural frame for social and political debate? This is the question posed with characteristic acuity by Nancy Fraser in her influential article 'Transnationalizing the Public Sphere?' Challenging careless us...

Until recently, struggles for justice proceeded against the background of a taken-for-granted frame: the bounded territorial state. With that "Westphalian" picture of political space assumed by default, the scope of justice was rarely subject to explicit dispute. Today, the scope of justice is hotly contested, as human-rights activists and international feminists join critics of structural adjustment and the WTO in targeting injustices that cu...

Die bekannte Philosophin Nancy Fraser untersucht eine Reihe von neueren Ansätzen kritischer Gesellschaftstheorie in Frankreich, Amerika und Deutschland und im Hinblick auf die Theorie und Praxis der Frauenbewegung. Ziel ist die Ausarbeitung einer kritischen Theorie, die als Reflexion der politischen Praxis an praktischen Eingriffsmöglichkeiten orientiert ist. Eine solche Gesellschaftstheorie definiert Fraser als »Selbstverständigung der Zeit ü...

Fraser zeigt auf, wie Ansprüche auf kulturelle Anerkennung mit Forderungen nach ökonomischer Umverteilung in ein umfassendes politisches Projekt integriert werden können, was die Vorbedingung für die Herstellung von Gerechtigkeit, insbesondere hinsichtlich des Geschlechterverhältnisses, darstellt.

..". Fraser and Bartky have brought the encounter between U.S. andFrench feminism to a new level of seriousness." --EthicsIn the last decade, elements of French feminist discoursehave permeated and transformed the larger feminist culture in the United States.This volume is the first sustained attempt to revalue French feminism and answer thequestion: What has been gained and what has been lost as a result of thisintercultural encounter?Intervi...

When globe-trotting photographer Allison Cain comes home to her family ranch in Montana it's to get to know her nephew and to make amends with the widowed brother-in-law she's left alone to raise his young son. Evan Carver could never deny his late wife's younger sister anything, despite the fact she's been conspicuously absent over the past three years since her sister's death. Now she's home again on what she's called an extended vacatio...

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In its comprehensive overview of Alain Locke's pragmatist philosophy this book captures the radical implications of Locke's approach within pragmatism, the critical temper embedded in Locke's works, the central role of power and empowerment of the oppressed and the concept of broad democracy Locke employed.

Publicist Teri Hunter has her hands full promoting Professor Joshua Cain and his new non-fiction book, The Pharaoh's Mummy. She's not even sure it's possible to turn this absent-minded, modern-day, Indiana Jones into a best-selling author. Dr. Cain's PhDs in archaeology and art history have prepared him for almost anything on the lecture circuit and among ancient ruins. He's just not sure about a book tour...or the sexy publicist sent to ...