Nancy Fraser and Axel Honneth (eds) Redistribution or Recognition? A Political-Philosophical Exchange London and recently made known York.

Nancy Fraser and Axel Honneth (eds) Redistribution or Recognition? A Political-Philosophical Exchange London and recently made known York, Verso, 2003

Redistribution or Recognition? obstructs two of the world's leading illustrations of Critical Theory, political philosophers Nancy Fraser and Axel Honneth in a debate about the nature and aims of political trys in the industrialised world. According to Fraser, political demands for redistributive justice--that is, socio-economic reforms--are being displaced at identity-based struggles for cultural recognition--that is, demands to have certain marks of cultural identity, such as indigenous or gay identities, accorded appropriate relate to and value. This shift has polarised and disoriented the