Profile
Nancy Fraser is the Henry and Louise A. Loeb Professor of and at the 麻豆传媒色情片 for Social Research and a member of the Editorial Committee of New Left Review. Trained as a philosopher, she specializes in critical social theory and political philosophy. Widely known for her work on the relation between redistribution and recognition in the theory of justice, she works now on the relation of capitalism to racial oppression, social reproduction, ecological crisis, feminist movements, and the rise of rightwing populism.
Fraser鈥檚 newest book is听听(Verso, 2022). Other recent books include听, co-authored with Cinzia Arruzza and Tithi Bhattacharya (Verso, 2019); (Verso, 2019); and听, co-authored with Rahel Jaeggi (Polity Press, 2018).
Fraser鈥檚 work has been translated into more than twenty languages and was cited three times by the Justices of the Brazilian Supreme Court鈥搃n opinions upholding marriage equality, affirmative action, and Afro-descendant collective land rights. A Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor, a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a past President of the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, she is the recipient of six honorary degrees, the Alfred Schutz Prize for Social Philosophy, the Nessim Habif World Prize, and the Nonino Prize 2022 鈥淢aster of our Time.鈥澨
Degrees Held
PhD 1980, City University of New York
Recent Publications
Books and Edited Volumes
(Verso, 2022)
听(Verso, 2019), co-authored with Cinzia Arruzza and Tithi Bhattacharya.
听(Polity, 2018), co-authored with Rahel Jaeggi.
听(Verso, 2013).
听(Polity, 2008). Also in Spanish and Chinese translations.
听(Verso, 2008), edited by Kevin Olson. Also in Chinese, Korean and Italian听translations.
.听脡dition 茅tablie et introduction par Estelle Ferrarese (Paris: La D茅couverte, 2005).
, co-edited with Seyla Benhabib (MIT Press, 2004).
(Verso, 2003), co-authored with Axel Honneth. Also published in German, Spanish, Polish, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Turkish and Czech translations.
(Cambridge, 2003), in Swedish, Czech听and Danish听translations.
听(Routledge, 1997). Also published in German, Spanish, Chinese, Italian and Japanese translations.
听(Routledge, 1994), co-authored with Seyla Benhabib, Judith Butler, and Drucilla Cornell. Also published in German and Turkish translations.
, co-edited with Sandra Bartky (Indiana University Press, 1992).
听(University of Minnesota Press, 1989). Also published in German translation.
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Selected Articles and Chapters
","听American Affairs听Vol. 1, No. 4 (Winter 2017) pp. 46-64
"A New Form of Capitalism? A Reply to Boltanski and Esquerre,"听New Left Review, Issue 106, pp. 57-65, 2017.
"A Tale of Two Cities - and Three Generations,"听Philosophy and Social Criticism, Vol. 43(3), pp. 264-265, 2017.
"Crisis of Care? On the Social-Reproductive Contradictions of Contemporary Capitalism," in Tithi Bhattacharya (ed.),听. University of Chicago, 2017)
"," in Heinrich Geiselberger (ed.),听The Great Regression. Wiley, 2017.
","听New Left Review,听100, 2016.
","听Critical Historical Studies, Vol.3(1), 2016.
"Feminism's Two Legacies: A Tale of Ambivalence,"听South Atlantic Quarterly, Vol.114(4), 2015.
"Legitimation Crisis? On the Political Contradictions of Financialized Capitalism,"听Critical Historical Studies, Vol. 2(2), 2015.
"Behind Marx's Hidden Abode,"听New Left Review, 86, 2014.
"A Triple Movement,"听New Left Review, 81, 2013.
"Tales from the Trenches: On Women Philosophers, Feminist Philosophy, and the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy,"听Journal of Speculative Philosophy,听Vol. 26(2), 2012.
"Injustice at Intersecting Scales: On 'Social Exclusion' and the 'Global Poor,'"听European Journal Of Social Theory, Vol. 13(3), 2010.
"Feminism, Capitalism and the Cunning of History,"听New Left Review听(2009).听
Research Interests
Social and political theory; feminist theory; contemporary French and German thought
Awards And Honors
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Nonino Prize 鈥楳asters Of Our Time鈥 2022
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Chevalier de la Legion d'honneur, 2018
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Award for Lifetime Contribution to Critical Scholarship, Havens Center for Social Justice, University of Wisconsin, 2018
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Nessim Habif World Prize, The Graduate Institute, Geneva, 2018
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Doctor Honoris Causa, Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication and Faculty of Philosophy, Erasmus University Rotterdam, 2014
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Doctor Honoris Causa, Universidad Nacional de San Martin, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2014
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International Research Chair in Social Justice, Coll猫ge d鈥櫭﹖udes mondiales, Paris, 2011-2016听
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Senior Fellow, Center for Advanced Studies 鈥淛ustitia Amplificata,鈥 Frankfurt, 2013
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Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Fellow, November-December 2012
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Einstein Visiting Fellow, JFK Institute for American Studies, Frei Universit盲t, Berlin, 2010-2012
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Humanitas Visiting Professor in Women's Rights, University of Cambridge, UK, March 2011
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Doctor Honoris Causa, Roskilde University, Denmark, 2011
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Donald Gordon Fellow, Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies, South Africa, 2011
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Alfred Schutz Prize in Social Philosophy, American Philosophical Association, 2010
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Chaire Blaise Pascal, 脡cole des hautes 茅tudes en sciences sociales, Paris, 2008-2010
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Awarded the Doctor Honoris Causa, by the National University of Cordoba (Argentina), 2006