Alex Honneth is a Professor of Philosophy at both the University of Frankfurt and Columbia University. He is also the Director of the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.Nancy Fraser is Loeb Professor of Philosophy and Politics at the New School for Social Research, Einstein Fellow of the city of Berlin, and holder of the "Global Justice" Chair at the Collège d'études mondiales in Paris. Her books include Fortunes of Feminism; Adding Insult to Injury; Scales of Justice; Justice Interruptus; and Unruly Practices.

A carefully wrought and provocative debate between philosophers with strong commitments to asking what a more just social life might be. This text will doubtless produce a spate of new and important scholarship in critical theory in its wake.