Verso Adding Insult to Injury: Social Justice and the Politics of Recognition: Nancy Fraser Debates Her Critics

A debate over how to do justice to the legitimate claims of multiculturalism without abandoning the Left's commitment to social and economic equality. Review "Even those of us who disagree with Nancy Fraser on substantive questions recognize her ability to illuminate the conflicting demands, hopes and sufferings of our time. With the capacity to learn by dialogue, an analytically sharp mind and a stunning synthetic ability, she is among the very few thinkers in the tradition of critical theory who are capable of redeeming its legacy in the twenty-first century."--Axel Honneth"For more than a decade, Nancy Fraser's thought has helped to reframe the agenda of critical theory. Today, when hopes flicker and shine against the background of pervasive repression, "Adding Insult to Injury" provides a singular stimulation."--Etienne Balibar About the Author Nancy Fraser is Loeb Professor of Philosophy and Politics at the New School for Social Research, Einstein Fellow of the city of Berlin, and holder of the "Global Justice" Chair at the College d'etudes mondiales in Paris. Her books include "Redistribution or Recognition"; "Adding Insult to Injury"; "Scales of Justice"; "Justice Interruptus"; and "Unruly Practices." Kevin Olson is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of "Reflexive Democracy: Political Equality and the Welfare State." Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of "Frames of War," "Precarious Life," "The Psychic Life of Power," "Excitable Speech," "Bodies that Matter," "Gender Trouble," and with Slavoj  i ek and Ernesto Laclau, "Contingency, Hegemony, Universality."