Nancy Fraser and Politics

Nancy Fraser and Politics is a comprehensive reconstruction of Nancy Fraser’s theoretical perspective, which demonstrates that Fraser's work is political in its entirety by explaining her unique, ‘problem-based’ methodology of developing first-order conceptual tools, such as redistribution and recognition, that can illuminate an array of economic and socio-cultural injustices of today by tracing their structural origins and their interimbrication. Examining in detail Fraser’s metatheoretical guiding principles, her theory of capitalism, position within feminist debates and approach to theorizing democracy and socialism, the book showsthat Fraser's principal aim is to identify the gap in present-day capitalist democracies between procedural blamelessness and persistent substantive injustices, by weaving together what might at first glance seem as incompatible theoretical traditions. Fraser's critical theory is, in the authors’ judgement, 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 the manifold political movements struggling for societal emancipation.