Abstract
My paper is dedicated to clarifying the structural roots of contemporary social crises in the hope that it will help empower us to build that movement. To do so, I draw Nancy Fraser’s critical theory of capitalist society. I begin by presenting her theory of capitalism as an institutionalized social order composed of five interdependent spheres and subject to inter-sphere boundary crises. I then consider a limitation of Fraser’s theory: that it does not explain why the non-economic spheres are constitutive of but necessarily external to, the productive economy. In response, I develop Fraser’s ontology of capitalist to explain why the economic sphere presupposes, and yet necessary stands in tension with, its non-economic background conditions.
Presenters
Pat HopeGraduate Student Worker, Philosophy, Stanford University, California, United States
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
Vectors of Society and Culture
KEYWORDS
Crisis, Social Ontology, Economics, Social Reproduction, Exploitation, Expropriation, Nature, Politics
