[Marxism] NANCY FRASER: ICA Event for 'Adding Insult to Injury'

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NANCY FRASER AT THE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ARTS

 

Monday 09 March at 7.00 pm

 

To commemorate her recently published Adding Insult to Injury, as well as 
Scales of Justice, Nancy Fraser will speak at the ICA on 09 March, in 
conversation with Anne Phillips, Professor of Political and Gender Theory at 
LSE, and a contributor to Adding Insult to Injury.  Fraser examines the changes 
in leftist accounts of injustice since the collapse of Communism and the rise 
of identity politics.  These accounts have strayed from a traditional focus on 
economic harms such as poverty, exploitation, and inequality; attention has 
turned increasingly towards cultural issues such as cultural imperialism, 
'misrecognition', and disrespect.  This development raises serious questions; 
how can the Left do justice to the legitimate claims of multiculturalism 
without abandoning its commitment to economic equality?  How can it broaden the 
understanding of an injustice that adds (cultural) insult to (economic) injury?

 

Tickets available from:

http://www.ica.org.uk/From%20Insult%20to%20Injury+19175.twl

 

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ADDING INSULT TO INJURY

Nancy Fraser Debates her Critics

 

By Nancy Fraser

Edited by Kevin Olson

 

"For more than a decade, Nancy Fraser's thought has helped to reframe the 
agenda of critical theory. Today, when egalitarian hopes flicker and shine 
against the background of pervasive repression, Adding Insult to Injury 
provides a singular stimulation." Etienne Balibar

Adding Insult to Injury tracks the debate sparked by Nancy Fraser's 
controversial effort to combine redistribution, recognition, and representation 
in a new understanding of social justice.  The volume showcases Fraser's 
critical exchanges with leading thinkers, including Judith Butler, Richard 
Rorty, Iris Marion Young, Anne Phillips, and Rainer Forst.  The result is a 
wide-ranging and at times contentious exploration of varied approaches to 
rebuilding the Left.

 

NANCY FRASER is Loeb Professor of Philosophy and Politics at the New School for 
Social Research and holder of a Chaire Blaise Pascal at the École des Hautes 
Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris.  Her books include Redistribution or 
Recognition: A Political-Philosophical Exchange (with Axel Honneth), Justice 
Interruptus: Critical Reflections on the "Postsocialist" Condition, and Unruly 
Practices: Power, Discourse and Gender in Contemporary Social Theory.

 

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ISBN 9781859842232 / £16.99 / $29.95 / Paperback / 360 pages / Published 
November 2008

 

Adding Insult to Injury is available from all good bookshops and at:

 

http://www.versobooks.com/books/cdef/ef-titles/fraser_n_adding_insult_to_injury.shtml

 

UK

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Adding-Insult-Injury-Redistribution-Representation/dp/1859842232/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1234451423&sr=8-2

 

US

http://www.amazon.com/Adding-Insult-Injury-Redistribution-Representation/dp/1859842232/ref=pd_bbs_sr_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1234451521&sr=8-3

 

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REDISTRIBUTION AND RECOGNITION

A Political-Philosophical Exchange

 

By Nancy Fraser and Axel Honneth

 

In this stimulating debate, two political philosophers, a North American and a 
European, examine the increasingly polarized political positions of 
"redistribution" or "recognition" within political philosophy - that is, the 
politics of difference or the politics of equality; class politics versus 
identity politics.  Proponents of each position claim the invalidity of other; 
that identity politics are a hindrance to the pursuit of social justice, and 
that distributive politics are an outmoded materialism that can neither 
articulate nor challenge the injustice experienced from the perspective of 
'ethnic', 'racial', 'sexual' or 'gender' difference.  This situation 
exemplifies a broader phenomenon: the widespread decoupling of cultural 
politics from social politics. 

 

ISBN 9781859844922 / £16 / $22 / Paperback / 276 pages / Published 2003

 

Redistribution and Recognition is available from all good bookshops and at:

 

http://www.versobooks.com/books/cdef/ef-titles/fraser_n_honneth_red_rec.shtml

 

UK

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Redistribution-Recognition-Political-Philosophical-Nancy-Fraser/dp/1859844928

 

US

http://www.amazon.com/Redistribution-Recognition-Political-Philosophical-Nancy-Fraser/dp/1859844928

 

 

For further information about the book, the author or events, contact Killian 
Condell: killian@xxxxxxxxxxx/ Tel. 02074373546

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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