With the post-Communist rise of identity politics, the Left has turned away from poverty and exploitation, in favor of a focus on culture, identity, and representation. Nancy Fraser’s widely-cited work looks at ways to combine multiculturalism with a commitment to egalitarianism. This volume collects the responses of America’s leading social theorists, along with Nancy Fraser’s rejoinder to their arguments.

Contributors include Judith Butler, Rainer Forst, Anne Phillips, Richard Rorty, and Iris Marion Young

Nancy Fraser is Professor of Political Science in the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research and the co-editor of the journal Constellations. Her books include Justice Interruptus: Rethinking Key Concepts of a “Postsocialist” Age and Unruly Practices: Power, Discourse and Gender in Contemporary Social Theory.