Nancy Fraser Henry A. und Louise Loeb Professorin für Philosophie und Politik an der New School for Social Research, New York Aufenthalt am Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften: Januar‒Juni und Oktober‒Dezember 2013Forschungsthema am Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften: »Crisis, Critique, Capitalism: Re-reading Marx, Polanyi, and Habermas in the 21st Century«Projektbeschreibung: In recent decades, critical theorists have largely abandoned the project of a »crisis critique« of capitalist society, aimed at conceptualizing the latter’s inherently self-destabilizing tendencies, its characteristic forms of domination and social struggle, and its prospects for emancipatory social transformation. Today, however, the need for such critique is more urgent than ever. Yet far from returning to earlier models, the project must be reconstructed in a form adequate to the 21st century. Eschewing a one-dimensional focus on the economy, today’s critical theory must conceptualize the interpenetration of that aspect with other fundamental dimensions of the present crisis–ecological, political, cultural and social-reproductive. Equally important, it must incorporate the insights of new paradigms of critical theorizing, above all feminism, postcolonialism, and ecological thought, without abandoning the classical aspiration to conceptualize capitalist society as a social totality. Guided by this project, I am revisiting three ambitious and powerful critiques of capitalist crisis: Karl Marx’s Capital, Karl Polanyi’s The Great Transformation, and Jürgen Habermas’s Legitimation Crisis. By synthesizing what in these works remains valid, by overcoming their respective blindspots, and by reconstructing their problematic aspects, I hope to contribute to a revival of crisis critique in the 21st century. (Nancy Fraser) Förderung des Aufenthaltes: DFG-Kollegforschergruppe »Justitia Amplificata. Rethinking Justice − Applied and Global«Wissenschaftliches Profil von Nancy FraserForschungsschwerpunkte: Gesellschaftstheorie, politische Theorie, feministische Theorie, zeitgenössische französische und deutsche PhilosophieVeröffentlichungen (Auswahl):
Weitere akademische Tätigkeiten: Nancy Fraser war lange Zeit Mitherausgeberin von Constellations. An international journal of critical and democratic theory. Gegenwärtig hat sie den internationalen Forschungslehrstuhl »Globale Gerechtigkeit« am Collège d’études mondiales in Paris inne. Von 2010‒2014 ist sie Einstein Fellow am John F. Kennedy Institut für Nordamerikastudien der Freien Universität Berlin. |