Amy Allen

The End of Progress

Decolonizing the Normative Foundations of Critical Theory

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• New Directions in Critical Theory
• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 154mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 470g
• ISBN-13: 9780231173254
• ISBN-10: 0231173253
• Artikelnr.: 48094968

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