Nancy Fraser Quotes
Nancy Fraser is an American philosopher, professor at the New School for Social Research, and one of the leading contemporary critical theorists working in the second generation of the Frankfurt School. Justice Interruptus and her debates with Axel Honneth and Judith Butler in Redistribution or Recognition? The quotes below are attributed to Nancy Fraser, organized by topic.
Nancy Fraser on Justice
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Attributed to Nancy Fraser:
“Justice today requires redistribution, recognition, and representation, not any one alone.”
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Attributed to Nancy Fraser:
“Misrecognition is a status injury, not merely an insult to the self.”
Nancy Fraser on Politics
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Attributed to Nancy Fraser:
“Capitalism cannibalizes the conditions on which it depends.”
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Attributed to Nancy Fraser:
“The public sphere is plural, or it is not democratic.”
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Attributed to Nancy Fraser:
“Critical theory is not a worldview; it is a practice of self-clarification of social struggle.”