Unruly Practices: Power, Discourse and Gender in Contemporary Social Theory
@inproceedings{Fraser1989UnrulyPP, title={Unruly Practices: Power, Discourse and Gender in Contemporary Social Theory}, author={Nancy Fraser}, year={1989} }
Acknowledgements. Introduction. Part I: Powers, Norms, and Vocabularies of Contestation:. 1. Foucault on Modern Power:. Empirical Insights and Normative Confusions. 2. Michael Foucault: A a Young Conservativea ?. 3. Foucaulta s Body Language: A Posthumanist Political Rhetoric?. Part II: On the Political and the Symbolic:. 4. The French Derrideans:. Politicizing Deconstruction or Deconstructing the Political?. 5. Solidarity or Singularity?:. Richard Rorty between Romanticism and Technocracy…
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