This article argues that a theory of recognition cannot provide the comprehensive basis for a
critical theory or a conception of social justice. In this respect, I agree with Fraser's impulse to …

In the first section, I propose a working definition of “critical theory” to identify the field in
which the discussions occur. I try to show that the language of recognition imposes itself …

It has been argued that, in political theory and political practice, a concern with the
distribution of economic opportunities and resources has recently been displaced by a …

Refuting the argument to choose between" the politics of recognition" and the" politics of
redistribution," Justice Interruptus integrates the best aspects of both …

Recent work in political theory has examined progressive political movements in terms of the
claims made by these movements for redistribution and recognition. Rather than accepting a …

The conception of justice as fairness put forward in John Rawls' Theory of Justice (Rawls
1971) established the importance of a focus on justice and on how our views of justice need …

What does social justice require in contemporary societies? What are the requirements of
social democracy? Who and where are the individuals and groups that can carry forward …

4 Setting the Stage evolution and for the transformations that can make it more just, are
competing, whether they are mutually exclusive, or whether they are somehow compatible …

Now that the debate over the relationship between liberalism and communitarism has
submerged with the same suddenness with which it emerged two decades ago, the gap …

In an exchange with Axel Honneth and in other writings in the late 1990s, Nancy Fraser
argued against privileging recognition in social and political philosophy without a …