This volume presents a debate between four of the top feminist theorists in the US, discussing the key questions facing contemporary feminist theory, responding to each other, and distinguishing their views from others.

This text attempts to diagnose the contemporary postsocialist 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, this text argues that cultural politics of recognition and social politics of redistribution need to establish common ground in new...

"Recognition" has become a veritable keyword of our time, but its relation to "redistribution" remains undertheorized. This volume remedies the lacuna by staging a sustained debate between two philosophers, one North American, the other European, who hold different views of the matter. Highly attuned to contemporary politics, the exchange between Nancy Fraser and Axel Honneth constitutes a rigorous dialogue on moral philosophy, social theory, and the best way to conceptualize capitalist society.

Until recently, struggles for justice proceeded against the background of a taken-for-granted frame: the bounded territorial state. With that "Westphalian" picture of political space assumed by default, the scope of justice was rarely subject to open dispute. Today, however, human-rights activists and international feminists join critics of structural adjustment and the World Trade Organization in challenging the view that justice can only be a domestic relation among fellow citizens. Targeting injustices that cut across borders, they are making the scale of justice an object of explicit...

Until recently, struggles for justice proceeded against the background of a taken-for-granted frame: the bounded territorial state. With that "Westphalian" picture of political space assumed by default, the scope of justice was rarely subject to open dispute. Today, however, human-rights activists and international feminists join critics of structural adjustment and the World Trade Organization in challenging the view that justice can only be a domestic relation among fellow citizens. Targeting injustices that cut across borders, they are making the scale of justice an object of explicit...

In diesem Band wird jene heute breitgefhrte Diskussion fortgesetzt, die sich im Rahmen der politischen Philosophie mit dem Begriff der Anerkennung und seinem Verhltnis zur Gerechtigkeitstheorie beschftigt. Nancy Fraser vertritt die These, dass eine politisch-philosophische Konzentration auf die Anerkennungsbegrifflichkeit die Folge hat, die nach wie vor brisanten Umverteilungsfragen in den Hintergrund treten zu lassen; demgegenber mchte Axel Honneth zeigen, dass sich Fragen der Verteilungsgerechtigkeit normativ besser klren lassen, wenn sie im Rahmen eines hinreichend ausdifferenzierten...

Is Habermas's concept of the public sphere still relevant in an age of globalization, when the transnational flows of people and information have become increasingly intensive and when the nation-state can no longer be taken granted as the natural frame for social and political debate? This is the question posed with characteristic acuity by Nancy Fraser in her influential article 'Transnationalizing the Public Sphere?' Challenging careless uses of the term 'global public sphere', Fraser raises the debate about the nature and role of the public sphere in a global age to a new level. While...

Is Habermas's concept of the public sphere still relevant in an age of globalization, when the transnational flows of people and information have become increasingly intensive and when the nation-state can no longer be taken granted as the natural frame for social and political debate? This is the question posed with characteristic acuity by Nancy Fraser in her influential article 'Transnationalizing the Public Sphere?' Challenging careless uses of the term 'global public sphere', Fraser raises the debate about the nature and role of the public sphere in a global age to a new level. While...