The End of Progress

Decolonizing the Normative Foundations of Critical Theory
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-0-231-17324-7
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 551 g

Reihe: New Directions in Critical Theory

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--J?rgen Habermas, Axel Honneth, and Rainer Forst--have persistently 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 social imperative, so eloquently defended by Adorno and Foucault. Critical theory, according to Allen, is the best resouce 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Allen, Amy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and AcknowledgmentsList of Abbreviations1. Critical Theory and the Idea of ProgressProgress and the Normativity of Critical TheoryThe Coloniality of Power: The Political-Epistemological Critique of Progress as a "Fact"Problematizing ProgressOutline of Book2. From Social Evolution to Multiple Modernities: History and Normativity in HabermasThe Last Marxist? Social Evolution and the Reconstruction of Historical MaterialismModernity and Normativity in The Theory of Communicative ActionFrom Hegel to Kant and Back Again: Habermas's Discourse EthicsEurocentrism, Multiple Modernities, and Historical Progress3. The Ineliminability of Progress? Honneth's Hegelian ContextualismProgress and Critical TheorySocial Freedom as ProgressThe Ineliminability of Progress?Historical Progress and Normativity4. From Hegelian Reconstructivism to Kantian Constructivism: Forst's Theory of JustificationProgress Toward JusticeConstructivism vs. Reconstructivism, Universalism vs. Contextualism: The Basic Right to JustificationPractical Reason, Authoritarianism, and SubjectionPutting First Things First: Power and the Methodology of Critical Theory5. From the Dialectic of Enlightenment to the History of Madness: Foucault as Adorno's Other Other SonThe Dialectic of Progress: Adorno and the Philosophy of HistoryDe-Dialectizing Hegel: Foucault and the Historical historical a prioriCritique as Historical Problematization: Adorno and FoucaultAdorno, Foucault, and the "Postcolonial"6. Conclusion: "Truth," Reason, and HistoryUnlearning, Epistemic Humility, and Metanormative ContextualismThe Impurity of Practical Reason (Reprise)Progress, in HistoryCoda: Criticalizing Postcolonial TheoryNotesBibliographyIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Amy Allen is the Parents Distinguished Research Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy and Women's and Gender Studies at Dartmouth College. She is the author of The Power of Feminist Theory: Domination, Resistance, Solidarity and The Politics of Our Selves: Power, Autonomy, and Gender in Contemporary Critical Theory, and she is the editor of the Columbia University Press series New Directions in Critical Theory.