(Mis)recognition, Social Inequality and Social Justice: Nancy Fraser and Pierre Bourdieu
ISBN: 9780203932667
Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / Routledge
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited
Subjects: Social Sciences; Sociology & Social Policy; Social Class; Social Theory;

Nancy Fraser's work provides a theory of justice from multiple perspectives which has created a powerful frame for the analysis of political, moral and pragmatic dilemmas in an era of global capitalism and cultural pluralism. It has been developed through dialogue with key contemporary thinkers, including an extended critical exchange with Axel Honneth that touches importantly upon the work of the late Pierre Bourdieu on social suffering. All the essays collected here engage with the work of one or both of these thinkers'. They consider some of the conceptual and philosophical contentions that Fraser's and Bourdieu's models have provoked, and offer some compelling examples of their analytical power.


Terry Lovell is a professor in the department of sociology at Warwick University and has published on feminist social and cultural theory.

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