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WiSe 21/22: From Feminism to Anti-Capitalism: Nancy Fraser's Critical Theory (English)

Lillian Cicerchia

Additional information / Pre-requisites

(1) Nancy Fraser, “From Progressive Neoliberalism to Trump—and Beyond" (2) Karl Marx, “Wage Labour and Capital” (3) Max Weber, “Class, Status, Party” (4) Nancy Fraser, “Feminist Politics in the Age of Recognition: A Two-Dimensional Approach to Gender Justice” (5) Nancy Fraser, “Struggle Over Needs: Outline of a Socialist-Feminist Critical Theory of Late-Capitalist Political Culture” in Fortunes of Feminism (6) Nancy Fraser, “After the Family Wage: A Post-Industrial Thought Experiment” in Fortunes of Feminism (7) Judith Butler, “Merely Cultural?” & Iris Marion Young, “Unruly Categories: A Critique of Nancy Fraser’s Dual Systems Theory” (8) Nancy Fraser, “Heterosexism, Misrecognition, and Capitalism: A Response to Judith Butler” & “A Rejoinder to Iris Young” (9) Axel Honneth, “Redistribution as Recognition: A Response to Nancy Fraser” in Redistribution or Recognition? A Political-Philosophical Exchange (10) Nancy Fraser, “Distorted Beyond All Recognition: A Rejoinder to Axel Honneth” in Redistribution or Recognition? A Political-Philosophical Exchange (11) Nancy Fraser, “Beyond Marx’s Hidden Abode: For an Expanded Conception of Capitalism” (12) Nancy Fraser, “Contradictions of Capital and Care” (13) Nancy Fraser and Rahel Jaeggi, Capitalism: A Conversation in Critical Theory (selections) (14) Nancy Fraser and Rahel Jaeggi, Capitalism: A Conversation in Critical Theory (selections) close

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This course will take a deep dive into one of the most influential critical theorists of the neoliberal age. Indeed, Nany Fraser has a singular place in critical theory due to her time worn insistence that capitalism has a determining effect on how workers, women, and minorities experience oppression, the kinds of political demands that they make, and the obstacles to realizing justice in a post-socialist age. Fraser’s lasting legacy will have been to keep these discussions alive, push them further, and inspire a new generation. We’ll start with her early work on feminism, then engage her debates with philosophers like Iris Marion Young, Judith Butler, and Axel Honneth, and finally turn to her more recent theory of capitalism. close