Feminism, Capitalism, and Critique Banu Bargu • Chiara Bottici Editors Feminism, Capitalism, and Critique

Essays in Honor of Nancy Fraser Editors Banu Bargu Chiara Bottici Department of Politics Department of Philosophy New School for Social Research New School for Social Research New York, USA New York, USA

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This book was born as a surprise. The original idea came from Eli Zaretsky, who proposed that we edit a book to celebrate the seventieth birthday of our New School colleague and friend Nancy Fraser. As we gladly accepted his invitation, it became immediately clear to us that such a Festschrift would also be a window to our political present – and not simply the celebration of an illustrious intellectual past. For reasons that we elucidate in the Introduction and that we hope will become clear to any reader of this book, we think that Nancy Fraser’s work is today more timely than ever. We are therefore very grateful to Eli Zaretsky for sparking the initial idea and for helping us keep track of the many scholars who have been in conversation with Nancy Fraser throughout her career and whom we tried to gather for the occasion. His diligent skills as an intellectual historian, along with his privileged position as Nancy Fraser’s partner, proved to be particularly helpful to solicit the contributions in this volume. Among his many virtues that we are grateful for, we should also add his impeccable discretion, which was absolutely crucial to maintain the project as a surprise. For believing in the project and for his patience in following its various steps, we would also like to thank our Palgrave editor Chris Robinson. Together with the Palgrave production team, we would like to acknowl- edge the editorial help of our NSSR research assistants: Veronica Dakota Padilla, Sara Hassani, Jordanco Jovanovski, Ryan Gustafson, and Amir Sadeghi. Without their scrupulous care and hard work, this book would not have been possible.

v CONTENTS

Introduction 1 Banu Bargu and Chiara Bottici

From Socialist Feminism to the Critique of Global Capitalism 17 Richard J. Bernstein

Debates on Slavery, Capitalism and Race: Old and New 43 Robin Blackburn

Feminism, Capitalism, and the Social Regulation of Sexuality 67 Johanna Oksala

Capitalism’s Insidious Charm vs. Women’s and Sexual Liberation 85 Cinzia Arruzza

The Long Life of Nancy Fraser’s “Rethinking the Public Sphere” 101 Jane Mansbridge

Feminism, Ecology, and Capitalism: Nancy Fraser’s Contribution to a Radical Notion of Critique as Disclosure 119 María Pía Lara

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Recognition, Redistribution, and Participatory Parity: Where’s the Law? 139 William E. Scheuerman

(Parity of) Participation – The Missing Link Between Resources and Resonance 157 Hartmut Rosa

Curbing the Absolute Power of Disembedded Financial Markets: The Grammar of Counter-Hegemonic Resistance and the Polanyian Narrative 167 Alessandro Ferrara

Hegel and Marx: A Reassessment After One Century 185 Axel Honneth

Crisis, Contradiction, and the Task of a Critical Theory 209 Rahel Jaeggi

What’s Critical About a Critical Theory of Justice? 225 Rainer Forst

Beyond Kant Versus Hegel: An Alternative Strategy for Grounding the Normativity of Critique 243 Amy Allen

Nancy Fraser and the Left: A Searching Idea of Equality 263 Eli Zaretsky

Nancy Fraser’s Bibliography 281

Index 315