Justice Interruptus: Rethinking Key Concepts of a Post-socialist Age

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Justice Interruptus diagnoses the contemporary "post-socialist" condition. Political philosopher Nancy Fraser identifies the tasks facing critical theorists and political activists in the absence of any credible vision of an alternative to the present order. Ranging from theoretical topics like the meaning of difference and the limits of anti-essentialism to practical concerns such as multiculturalism, the Clarence Thomas confirmation and the future of welfare, Fraser argues that cultural politics of "recognition" and social politics of "redistribution" need to establish common ground in new conceptions of justice.

Nancy Fraser is Professor of Political Science in the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research. She is the author of Unruly Practices: Power, Discourse and Gender in Contemporary Social Theory (1989), the co-author of Feminist Contentions: A Philosophical Exchange (Routledge, 1994), and the co-editor of Revaluing French Feminism: Critical Essays on Difference, Agency, and Culture (1992).