New Left Review I/222, March-April 1997

Iris Marion Young

Unruly Categories: A Critique of Nancy Fraser’s Dual Systems Theory

Have theorists of justice forgotten about political economy? [*] Have we traced the most important injustices to cultural roots? Is it time for critical social theory to reassert a basic distinction between the material processes of political economy and the symbolic processes of culture? In two recent essays, Nancy Fraser answers these questions in the affirmative. [1] She claims that some recent political theory and practice privilege the recognition of social groups, and that they tend to ignore the distribution of goods and the division of labour.

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