We live in a period of severe crisis, both objective and subjective. Objectively speaking, our crisis comprises many dimensions; financial/economic, ecological, social, and political. Subjectively speaking, its gravity is widely felt and generally acknowledged. Thus, we have before us indispensable preconditions for an emancipatory social transformation. Unlike its predecessors, however, this crisis has precipitated neither a comprehensive vision of alternative societal arrangements nor the sort of sustained, coherent matrix of organized opposition that could lead to an emancipatory resolution. The lecture reflects on this paradox.
Nancy Fraser is a critical theorist and the Henry A. and Louise Loeb Professor of Political and Social Science and professor of philosophy at The New School New York. Her research areas are social and political as well as feminist theory, and concern the politics of recognition and redistribution and concepts of justice within the conditions of a post-Westphalian and post-socialist frame. Among her most recent works are Scales of Justice: Reimagining Political Space in a Globalizing World (2008) and Abnormal Justice, published in Critical Inquiry, vol. 34/3 (2008), which is part of a book in progress.
Further information:
http://www.wzb.eu/sites/default/files/veranstaltungen/coninxokt2012ennet.pdf
Information on participating / attending:
Date:
10/17/2012 18:00 - 10/17/2012 21:00
Registration deadline:
10/16/2012
Event venue:
Reichpietschufer 50, Raum A 300
10785 Berlin
Berlin
Germany
Target group:
Journalists, Scientists and scholars
Email address:
Relevance:
transregional, national
Subject areas:
Law, Politics, Social studies
Types of events:
Presentation / colloquium / lecture
Entry:
10/11/2012
Sender/author:
Dr. Paul Stoop
Department:
Informations- und Kommunikationsreferat
Event is free:
yes
Language of the text:
English
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event41324
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