Our Bodies, Our Politics: Against The Ultra-Conservatives and Their Liberal Enablers

18.09.2021, 16:45

Lecture by Prof. Dr. Nancy Fraser (Livestream)

Introduction by Prof. Dr. Rainer Forst (Political Philosopher, Normative Orders, Goethe University Frankfurt)

Prof. Dr. Nancy Fraser is Henry A. and Louise Loeb Professor at the New School for Social Research and a member of the editorial board of the New Left Review. A philosopher by training, she specializes in critical social theory and political philosophy. Her most recent books are Cannibal Capitalism (forthcoming from Verso in 2022) and Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto, co-authored with Cinzia Arruzza and Tithi Bhattacharya (Verso, translated into 24 other languages in 2019).

Prof. Dr. Rainer Forst is Professor of Political Theory and Philosophy at the Goethe University Frankfurt and Director of the research network “Normative Ordnungen”. His work is published by Suhrkamp, most recently Normative Ordnungen (ed. with K. Günther) and forthcoming Die noumenale Republik. In 2012, he received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation. He is a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the British Academy.

The event will also be live-streamed on Youtube.