Justice interruptus

How should we think critically about politics when inequality is rising across the world, when campaigns for recognizing difference seem to overshadow campaigns for social equality, and when no convincing alternative to the existing order is in sight? Nancy Fraser, a philosopher, contends that progress depends on dismantling the false either-or assumptions she identifies as postsocialist common sense.

Fraser does not accept that activists and theorists must pick between recognition and redistribution as rival political goals. In their place she proposes an integrated approach that keeps the strengths of both.