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Capitalism: A Conversation in Critical Theory
Nancy Fraser
Synopsis "Capitalism: A Conversation in Critical Theory"
A scintillating conversation on capitalism and crisis from two of our most incisive political philosophers Capitalism, by the twenty-first century, has brought us an era of escalating, overlapping crisis-ecological, political, social-which we may not survive. In this brilliant, wide-ranging conversation, political philosophers Nancy Fraser and Rahel Jaeggi identify capitalism as the source of the devastation and examine its in-built tendency to crisis. In an exchange that ranges across history, critical theory, ecology, feminism and political theory, Fraser and Jaeggi find that capitalism's tendency to separate what is connected-human from non-human nature, commodity production and social reproduction-is at the heart of its crisis tendency. These "boundary struggles," Fraser and Jaeggi conclude, constitute capitalism's most destructive power but are also the sites where a fighting left movement might be able to halt the destruction and build the non-capitalist future we so desperately need. A crucial text for students of political theory, economic theory, and social change, Capitalism offers an invigorated critique of twenty-first century capitalism and an incisive study of our current conjuncture.
Es una de las exponentes más destacadas del feminismo y la teoría crítica actuales. Formada al calor de las luchas por los derechos civiles y contra la Guerra de Vietnam, encara de modo heterodoxo la filosofía y la política, disciplinas que enseña en la New School for Social Research neoyorquina. Desde esa perspectiva, integra a su investigación una relectura de una enorme biblioteca –que va de Gramsci a la primera generación de la escuela de Frankfurt, la deconstrucción, Bourdieu y Foucault– para proponer críticas a la desigualdad y la explotación que no se vuelvan funcionales al neoliberalismo imperante, sino que se afiancen en un bloque de lucha por la auténtica justicia económica y social. Docente y doctora Honoris Causa en los principales centros de Europa y América, es autora de influyentes libros como Feminismo para el 99%, Iustitia Interrupta y Escalas de justicia. Sus cursos actuales indagan textos de Karl Marx (Gründisse) o Walter Benjamin, además de la relación entre capitalismo, naturaleza y crítica.