Feminism, Capitalism, and Critique

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Introduction

   • Banu Bargu, Chiara Bottici

   Pages 1-15

3. From Socialist Feminism to the Critique of Global Capitalism

   • Richard J. Bernstein

   Pages 17-41

4. Debates on Slavery, Capitalism and Race: Old and New

   • Robin Blackburn

   Pages 43-65

5. Feminism, Capitalism, and the Social Regulation of Sexuality

   • Johanna Oksala

   Pages 67-83

6. Capitalism’s Insidious Charm vs. Women’s and Sexual Liberation

   • Cinzia Arruzza

   Pages 85-100

7. The Long Life of Nancy Fraser’s “Rethinking the Public Sphere”

   • Jane Mansbridge

   Pages 101-118

8. Feminism, Ecology, and Capitalism: Nancy Fraser’s Contribution to a Radical Notion of Critique as Disclosure

   • María Pía Lara

   Pages 119-137

9. Recognition, Redistribution, and Participatory Parity: Where’s the Law?

   • William E. Scheuerman

   Pages 139-156

10. (Parity of) Participation – The Missing Link Between Resources and Resonance

    • Hartmut Rosa

    Pages 157-166

11. Curbing the Absolute Power of Disembedded Financial Markets: The Grammar of Counter-Hegemonic Resistance and the Polanyian Narrative

    • Alessandro Ferrara

    Pages 167-184

12. Hegel and Marx: A Reassessment After One Century

    • Axel Honneth

    Pages 185-207

13. Crisis, Contradiction, and the Task of a Critical Theory

    • Rahel Jaeggi

    Pages 209-224

14. What’s Critical About a Critical Theory of Justice?

    • Rainer Forst

    Pages 225-242

15. Beyond Kant Versus Hegel: An Alternative Strategy for Grounding the Normativity of Critique

    • Amy Allen

    Pages 243-261

16. Nancy Fraser and the Left: A Searching Idea of Equality

    • Eli Zaretsky

    Pages 263-279

17. Back Matter

    Pages 281-323

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This edited collection examines the relationship between three central terms—capitalism, feminism, and critique—while critically celebrating the work and life of a thinker who has done the most to address this nexus: Nancy Fraser. In honor of her seventieth birthday, and in the spirit of her work in the tradition of critical theory, this collection brings together scholars from different disciplines and theoretical approaches to address this conjunction and evaluate Fraser’s lifelong contributions to theorizing it. Scholars from philosophy, political science, sociology, gender studies, race theory and economics come together to think through the vicissitudes of capitalism and feminism while also responding to different elements of Nancy Fraser’s work, which weaves together a strong feminist standpoint with a vibrant and complex critique of capitalism. Going beyond conventional disciplinary distinctions and narrow debates, all the contributors to this project share a commitment to critically understanding the connection between capitalism, exploitation, and the viable roads for emancipation. They recover insights provided by classical traditions of political and social thought, but they also open new research directions adapted to the global challenges of our time.

• Marx
• Frankfurt school
• ideology
• alienation
• Left
• civil disobedience
• redistribution
• recognition
• participation
• patriarchy
• intersectionality
• public sphere
• subaltern
• counterpublics
• Habermas
• Foucault
• neoliberalism
• subjectivity
• externalities
• sexuality

“The contributions to Feminism, Capitalism, and Critique: Essays in Honor of Nancy Fraser are uniformly excellent. … The essays in Feminism, Capitalism, and Critique achieve what its editors say they set out to achieve … .” (Georgia Warnke, Hypatia Reviews Online, hypatiareviews.org, September 19, 2019)

• Department of Politics, New School for Social Research, New York, USA

  Banu Bargu

• Department of Philosophy, New School for Social Research, New York, USA

  Chiara Bottici

Banu Bargu is Associate Professor of Politics at the New School for Social Research, USA.  She is the author of Starve and Immolate: The Politics of Human Weapons (2014), which received APSA’s First Book Prize given by the Foundations of Political Theory section and was named an Outstanding Academic Title for 2015 by Choice.

Chiara Bottici is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research, USA. She is the author of Imaginal Politics: Images beyond Imagination and The Imaginary (2014), A Philosophy of Political Myth (2007), and Uomini e stati. Percorsi di un'analogia (2004), which was published in English as Men and States (2009). 

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