Redistribution or recognition? : a political-philosophical exchange / Nancy Fraser and Axel Honneth ; translated by Joel Golb, James Ingram, and Christiane Wilke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fraser, Nancy.

Contributor:

Honneth, Axel, 1949-

Standardized Title:

Umverteilung oder Anerkennung? English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Social justice.

Capitalism--Moral and ethical aspects.

Capitalism.

Identity (Philosophical concept).

Recognition (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

viii, 276 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Verso, 2003.

Summary:

"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.

Contents:

1 Social Justice in the Age of Identity Politics: Redistribution, Recognition, and Participation / Nancy Fraser 7

I. Redistribution or Recognition? A Critique of Justice Truncated 9

II. Integrating Redistribution and Recognition: Problems in Moral Philosophy 26

III. Social-Theoretical Issues: On Class and Status in Capitalist Society 48

IV. Political-Theoretical Issues: Institutionalizing Democratic Justice 70

V. Concluding Conjunctural Reflections: Post-Fordism, Postcommunism, and Globalization 88

2 Redistribution as Recognition: A Response to Nancy Fraser / Axel Honneth 110

I. On the Phenomenology of Experiences of Social Injustice 114

II. The Capitalist Recognition Order and Conflicts over Distribution 135

III. Recognition and Social Justice 160

3 Distorted Beyond All Recognition: A Rejoinder to Axel Honneth / Nancy Fraser 198

I. On the Place of Experience in Critical Theory: Against the Reduction of Political Sociology to Moral Psychology 201

II. On the Cultural Turn in Social Theory: Against the Reduction of Capitalist Society to its Recognition Order 211

III. On Liberal Equality: Against the Reduction of Justice to an Ethics of Intact Identity 222

4 The Point of Recognition: A Rejoinder to the Rejoinder / Axel Honneth 237

I. Critical Social Theory and Immanent Transcendence 238

II. Capitalism and Culture: Social Integration, System Integration, and Perspectival Dualism 248

III. History and Normativity: On the Limits of Deontology 256.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1859846483

1859844928

OCLC:

52231679