1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910458155403321

Autore

Fraser Nancy

Titolo

Unruly practices [[electronic resource] ] : power, discourse, and gender in contemporary social theory / / Nancy Fraser

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1989

ISBN

0-8166-8316-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (213 p.)

Disciplina

301/.01

305.4201

Soggetti

Feminist theory

Radicalism

Sociology - Philosophy

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Apologia for Academic Radicals; Part 1 Powers, Norms, and Vocabularies of Contestation; Chapter 1 Foucault on Modern Power: Empirical Insights and Normative Confusions; Chapter 2 Michel Foucault: A ""Young Conservative""?; Chapter 3 Foucault's Body Language: A Posthumanist Political Rhetoric?; Part 2 On the Political and the Symbolic; Chapter 4 The French Derrideans: Politicizing Deconstruction or Deconstructing the Political?; Chapter 5 Solidarity or Singularity? Richard Rorty between Romanticism and Technocracy

Part 3 Gender and the Politics of Need InterpretationChapter 6 What's Critical about Critical Theory? The Case of Habermas and Gender; Chapter 7 Women, Welfare, and the Politics of Need Interpretation; Chapter 8 Struggle over Needs: Outline of a Socialist-Feminist Critical Theory of Late Capitalist Political Culture; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Sommario/riassunto

Fraser breaks new ground methodologically by integrating the heretofore divergent insights of poststructuralism, critical social theory, feminist theory, and pragmatism to form a new critical theory of late-capitalist political culture.