Nancy Fraser is a professor of philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York. Her books include Unruly Practices, Fortunes of Feminism and Cannibal Capitalism.
My ties to Habermas were multi-layered. He was an inspiration and a role model; a mentor and an antagonist; a figure who showed me early on how to practise ‘critique with an emancipatory intent’ but from whom I eventually had to distance myself.
All of us depend, in early age and often at the end of life, on the care of others. To think about care is to shuttle back and forth between social totality and the irreducible complexity of individual...
The important question is not whether a truly gender-blind capitalism is possible, but whether that would be an equality worth fighting for.
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