Amy Allen

The End of Progress (eBook, ePUB)

Decolonizing the Normative Foundations of Critical Theory

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

While post- and decolonial theorists have thoroughly debunked the idea of historical progress as a Eurocentric, imperialist, and neocolonialist fallacy, many of the most prominent contemporary thinkers associated with the Frankfurt School-Jürgen Habermas, Axel Honneth, and Rainer Forst-have defended ideas of progress, development, and modernity and have even made such ideas central to their normative claims. Can the Frankfurt School's goal of radical social change survive this critique? And what would a decolonized critical theory look like?

Amy Allen fractures critical theory from within by dispensing with its progressive reading of history while retaining its notion of progress as a political imperative, so eloquently defended by Adorno. Critical theory, according to Allen, is the best resource we have for achieving emancipatory social goals. In reimagining a decolonized critical theory after the end of progress, she rescues it from oblivion and gives it a future.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780231540636
• Artikelnr.: 44754893

Autorenporträt

Amy Allen is Liberal Arts Professor of Philosophy and head of the Department of Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University. She is the editor of the Columbia University Press series New Directions in Critical Theory.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
1. Critical Theory and the Idea of Progress
2. From Social Evolution to Multiple Modernities: History and Normativity
in Habermas
3. The Ineliminability of Progress? Honneth's Hegelian Contextualism
4. From Hegelian Reconstructivism to Kantian Constructivism: Forst's Theory
of Justification
5. From the Dialectic of Enlightenment to the History of Madness: Foucault
as Adorno's Other Other Son
6. Conclusion: "Truth," Reason, and History
Notes
Bibliography
Index