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\"What is capitalism? How do we understand its relation to twenty-first century society? What does it mean to criticize capitalism? And what kinds of social conflict and struggle can we expect to find under capitalism?<br style=\"font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;\" /><br style=\"font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;\" />In this important new book, Nancy Fraser and Rahel Jaeggi take a fresh look at the big questions surrounding this peculiar social form known as \"capitalism,\" upending many of our commonly held assumptions about what capitalism is and how to subject it to critique. Jaeggi presses Fraser to develop her new, \"expanded\" view of capitalism, in which capitalism is more than an economic system but an \"institutionalized social order\" that encompasses multiple domains of society - including the state monopoly on violence, the organization of family life, and relations to the natural environment. Fraser shows how, throughout its history, various regimes of capitalism have relied on a series of institutional separations between economy and polity, production and social reproduction, and human and non-human nature, periodically readjusting the \"boundaries\" between these domains in response to crises and upheavals. Fraser and Jaeggi discuss in what sense such \"boundary struggles\" offer a key to understanding capitalism's contradictions and the multiple forms of conflict to which it gives rise.<br style=\"font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;\" /><br style=\"font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;\" />What emerges from this analysis is a renewed crisis critique of capitalism which puts our present conjuncture into broader perspective, along with sharp diagnoses of the weaknesses of contemporary progressive politics, the recent resurgence of right-wing populism, and what would be required of a viable left alternative. This major new book by two leading critical theorists will be of great interest to anyone concerned with the nature and future of capitalism and with the key questions of progressive politics today\"-- Provided by publisher.

A feminist analysis of the social role & political function of critical intellectuals in academia, emphasizing the combining of activism with scholarly analytic rigor, presented in III PARTS, containing 8 Chpts, & an Introduction -- Apologia for Academic Radicals. PART I - POWERS, NORMS, AND VOCABULARIES OF CONTESTATION - includes (1) Foucault on Modern Power: Empirical Insights and Normative Confusions, (2) Michel Foucault: A \"Young Conservative\"?, & (3) Foucault's Body Language: A Posthumanist Political Rhetoric? -- which critically examine political-philosophical underpinnings of Foucault's work on social power & knowledge & a \"politics of truth.\" PART II - ON THE POLITICAL AND THE SYMBOLIC - in (4) The French Derrideans: Politicizing Deconstruction or Deconstructing the Political?, & (5) Solidarity or Singularity? Richard Rorty between Romanticism and Technocracy -- critically analyzes the French Derrideans, with specific attention to a feminist interpretation of the politics of the phenomenon of deconstruction in literary criticism, European intellectualism, Richard Rorty's reformist ethos & pragmatism, & the relationship between philosophy & politics. PART III - GENDER AND THE POLITICS OF NEED INTERPRETATION - in (6) What's Critical about Critical Theory? The Case of Habermas and Gender, (7) Women, Welfare, and the Politics of Need Interpretation, & (8) Struggle over Needs: Outline of a Socialist-Feminist Critical Theory of Late Capitalist Political Culture -- addresses the question of links between leftist academics & social movements. A feminist interpretation centers around critical examinations of the politics of needs interpretation, Habermasian social theory, emancipatory social transformation, & the prospects of social movements contributing to transformation. A socialist-feminist critical theory is developed that integrates the useful dimensions of the theorists examined. How expert discourses mediate public struggles by translating the politicized needs claimed by oppositional movements is analyzed in a discussion on the role of academic radicals. A case is made for challenging ideological distortions built into mainstream perspectives, compelling their adhehrents to respond & creating bridge discourses between leftist academics & social movement activists. 134 References. M. Crowdes

\"Polly Hampton has long been groomed for the perfect marriage by her mother, the fearsome and ambitious Lady Montdore. But Polly, with her stunning good looks and impeccable connections, is bored by the monotony of her glittering debut season in London. Having just come from India, where her father served as Viceroy, she claims to have hoped that society in a colder climate would be less obsessed with love affairs. The apparently aloof and indifferent Polly has a long-held secret, however, one that leads to the shattering of her mother's dreams and her own disinheritance. When an elderly duke begins pursuing the disgraced Polly and a callow potential heir curries favor with her parents, sa nothing goes as expected, but in the end all find happiness in their own unconventional ways\"--Back cover.

Since the end of the Cold War, there has been a wealth of discussion and controversy about the idea of a ‘postnational’ or ‘cosmopolitan’ politics. But while there are many normative theories of cosmopolitanism, as well as some cosmopolitan theories of globalization, there has been little attempt to grapple systematically with fundamental questions of structure and action from a ‘cosmopolitan point of view.’ Drawing on Kant‘s cosmopolitan writings and Habermas‘s critical theory of society, Brian Milstein argues that, before we are members of nations or states, we are participants in a ‘commercium’ of global interaction who are able to negotiate for ourselves the terms on which we share the earth in common with one another. He marshals a broad range of literature from philosophy, sociology, and political science to show how the modern system of sovereign nation-states destructively constrains and distorts these relations of global interaction, leading to pathologies and crises in present-day world society.

Unaffordable housing, poverty wages, inadequate healthcare, border policing, climate change--these are not what you ordinarily hear feminists talking about. But aren't they the biggest issues for the vast majority of women around the globe? Taking as its inspiration the new wave of feminist militancy that has erupted globally, this manifesto makes a simple but powerful case: feminism shouldn't start--or stop--with the drive to have women represented at the top of their professions. It must focus on those at the bottom, and fight for the world they deserve. And that means targeting capitalism. Feminism must be anticapitalist, eco-socialist and antiracist.