The Theoretical Critical Perspective of Nancy Fraser
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Nancy Fraser, Frankfurt School, contemporary capitalism, critical theory of justiceAbstract
This article tries to show Nancy Fraser as an exponent of contemporary critical theory. This objective does not ignore the marked differences between her political philosophy, for a long time rather focused on social justice, and what has characterized the authors of the Frankfurt school during these one hundred years. Nor is it possible to ignore that, while she was elaborating her perspectives about social injustices, she left here and there, in texts and interviews, several self-definitions of herself as a Marxist and critical theorist, without properly developing those statements. However, once her studies on contemporary capitalism were deepened and she came to conclude that this is not an economic system, as it is traditionally taken, but an “institutionalized social order,” she believes the time has come to review not only the theoretical-critical agenda of the old Frankfurt school, but also that of Marx himself.
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