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Nancy Fraser (born 20 May 1947) is an American critical theorist, currently the Henry A. and Louise Loeb Professor of Political and Social Science and professor of philosophy at The New School in New York City. Fraser earned her PhD in philosophy from the CUNY Graduate Center and taught in the philosophy department at Northwestern University for many years before moving to the New School. In addition to her many publications and lectures, Fraser is a former Co-editor of ''Constellations'', an international journal of critical and democratic theory, where she remains an active member of the Editorial Council.〔"About Constellations." Constellations Journal. The New School, n.d. Web. 23 Mar. 2015. Fraser, Nancy (2013). Fortunes of feminism: from state-managed capitalism to neoliberal crisis. Brooklyn, New York: Verso Books.〕 ==Research== Fraser is a noted feminist thinker concerned with conceptions of justice in the tradition of feminist thinkers like Martha Fineman. She argues that justice is a complex concept which must be understood from the standpoint of three separate yet interrelated dimensions: ''distribution'' (of resources), ''recognition'' (of the varying contributions of different groups), and ''representation'' (linguistic). She believes that as blank slate theory becomes increasingly marginalised by advances in genetics, Marxists should refocus their efforts on the espousal of blind redistribution over more equitable concepts of social justice such as those advocating the need for different groups to make concrete contributions to society. In Fortunes of Feminism, 2013, Fraser regards Marxist theory as being concerned with distribution. In New Left Review, 86, March/April 2014, she rediscovers Marx’s definition of capital as a social relationship between those with means of production and those who can only gain access to means of production by selling their ability to work. But she does not incorporate production where different social relations prevail – in the household, the community, and the public sector – into the economy as a whole. In keeping with her quest to avoid reductive conceptions of issues such as justice and democratic participation, she also argues that social theorists should synthesize elements of critical theory and post-structuralism, overcoming the "false antithesis" between the two,〔Fraser, Nancy (1997), "False Antitheses: A Response to Seyla Benhabib and Judith Butler", in N. Fraser, ''Justice Interruptus: Critical Reflections on the "Postsocialist" Condition'', New York: Routledge.〕 in order to gain a fuller understanding of the social and political issues with which both approaches are concerned. However, Fraser is not advocating a vague confusion of the two, but rather a pragmatic approach in which each school of thought is rigorously interrogated in order to separate its useful from its non-useful or detrimental elements for a democratic analysis of societal institutions and social movements. Thus Fraser is squarely in the tradition of left-democratic values while accommodating within this tradition the more recent insights of feminist theories, critical theory, and post-structuralism. Fraser was also one of the first English-speaking philosophers to do important work on Foucault. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nancy Fraser」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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