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Nancy Fraser

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Handbuch Anerkennung

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Nancy Fraser engages critically with the politics of recognition. Against mainstream philosophical and psychological traditions, she understands recognition in primarily sociological terms as a matter of social standing. She believes that the concept of recognition alone cannot inform a complete account of social justice. Instead it is necessary to supplement and integrate it with two further dimensions of redistribution and representation. Only such a three-dimensional account of social justice can facilitate the empirically grounded critique of contemporary capitalist societies and states.

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  1. University of the West of England (UWE Bristol), Bristol, England

    Simon Thompson & Dagmar Wilhelm

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  1. Philosophisches Seminar, Universität Münster Philosophisches Seminar, Münster, Germany

    Ludwig Siep

  2. School of Humanities & Languages, The University of New South Wales School of Humanities & Languages, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Heikki Ikäheimo

  3. Philosophisches Seminar, Westfälische Wilhelms Universität Philosophisches Seminar, Münster, Germany

    Michael Quante

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Thompson, S., Wilhelm, D. (2020). Nancy Fraser. In: Siep, L., Ikäheimo, H., Quante, M. (eds) Handbuch Anerkennung. Springer Reference Geisteswissenschaften. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-19561-8_60-1

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