Frankfurt Lecture II: Nancy Fraser
Nancy Fraser: The Crisis of Capitalism
19 and 20 April 2010, 7pm
Goethe University Frankfurt/Main / Campus Westend / Hörsaalzentrum / HZ3
Monday, 19 April 2010
Lecture I: Marketization, Social Protection, Emancipation
Tuesday, 20 April 2010
Lecture II: Ambivalences of Emancipation
Fraser’s analysis of the crisis of capitalism builds upon the theory of the economist and social theorist Karl Polanyi (“The Great Transformation”, 1944), augmenting Polanyi’s thesis of a double movement of marketization and social protections with a third axis of social struggles: emancipation. This threefold movement forms the core of her theoretical reflections which cast the current crisis of capitalist societies in a new light.
Nancy Fraser
Nancy Fraser is the Henry and Louise A. Loeb Professor of Philosophy and Politics and at the New School for Social Research in New York. She currently holds a “Blaise Pascal International Research Chair” at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris.
