Unruly Practices

1. Auflage 1990
ISBN: 978-0-7456-0391-9
Verlag: Polity Press

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 141 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 274 g

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. In addition, Nancy Fraser develops a new and original socialist-feminist critical theory that overcomes many of the limitations of current alternatives.

First, in a series of critical essays, she deploys philosophical and literary techniques to assess the work of Michael Foucault, the French deconstructionists, Richard Rorty, and Jürgen Habermas. Then, in a group of constructive essays, she incorporates their respective strengths in a new critical theory of late-capitalist political culture.

Fraser breaks new ground methodologically by integrating the previously divergent insights of poststructuralism, critical social theory, feminist theory, and pragmatism. Thematically, she deals with varied forms of dominance and subordination in modern, industrial, late-capitalist societies. These themes are integrated in an original theory of 'the politics of need interpretation.' This concept becomes the linchpin of the socialist-feminist critical theory.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fraser, Nancy

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements.

Introduction.

Part I: Powers, Norms, and Vocabularies of Contestation:.

1. Foucault on Modern Power:.

Empirical Insights and Normative Confusions.

2. Michael Foucault: A 'Young Conservative'?.

3. Foucault's Body Language: A Posthumanist Political Rhetoric?.

Part II: On the Political and the Symbolic:.

4. The French Derrideans:.

Politicizing Deconstruction or Deconstructing the Political?.

5. Solidarity or Singularity?:.

Richard Rorty between Romanticism and Technocracy.

Part III: Gender and the Politics of Need Interpretation:.

6. What's Critical about Critical Theory?.

The Case of Habermas and Gender.

7. Women, Welfare, and the Politics of Need Interpretation.

8. Struggle over Needs: Outline of a Socialist-Feminist Critical.

Theory of Late Capitalist Political Culture.

Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Nancy Fraser is affiliated to Northwestern University, where she is Professor of Philosophy, a Fellow of the Center for Urban Affairs and Policy Research, and also an affiliate of the Women's Studies Program.