The End of Progress (eBook)

Decolonizing the Normative Foundations of Critical Theory

Amy Allen (Autor)

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2016
Columbia University Press (Verlag)
978-0-231-54063-6 (ISBN)

Infos

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. In reimagining a decolonized critical theory after the end of progress, she rescues it from oblivion and gives it a future for achieving emancipatory social goals.

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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-Jurgen 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.

Autor

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.

Inhalt

Preface and AcknowledgmentsList of Abbreviations1. Critical Theory and the Idea of Progress2. From Social Evolution to Multiple Modernities: History and Normativity in Habermas3. The Ineliminability of Progress? Honneth's Hegelian Contextualism4. From Hegelian Reconstructivism to Kantian Constructivism: Forst's Theory of Justification5. From the Dialectic of Enlightenment to the History of Madness: Foucault as Adorno's Other Other Son6. Conclusion: "Truth," Reason, and HistoryNotesBibliographyIndex

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.1.2016
• Reihe/Serie: New Directions in Critical Theory
• Reihe/Serie: New Directions in Critical Theory
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• ISBN-10: 0-231-54063-9 / 0231540639
• ISBN-13: 978-0-231-54063-6 / 9780231540636