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A review by jpowerj
Redistribution or Recognition?: A Political-Philosophical Exchange by Axel Honneth, Nancy Fraser
5.0
Possibly the best book I've ever read in the "sphere" of social justice. Fraser's "two-dimensional" theory of justice in particular I think will stick with me for the rest of my life, as a cogent method for understanding and breaking down social divisions into their constituent parts, searching for causes, and developing praxis for dismantling them. I know I'm hyping it hella much here, but in a certain sense it's the perfect fusion of Marxian economic/material and Weberian "social status"-based perspectives on inequality/social divisions/oppression and their linkages with historical and contemporary institutions (media, education, taxation and wealth redistribution, etc.). Concretely, anyone interested in how we can balance Marxian perspectives on social justice with more "identity politics"-based perspectives should go read this book right now.