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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 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.-- Critical Theory And The Idea Of Progress -- From Social Evolution To Multiple Modernities : History And Normativity In Habermas -- The Ineliminability Of Progress? Honneth's Hegelian Contextualism -- From Hegelian Rec

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Author

Amy Allen

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780231173247

Category

philosophy

Subjects

Political Science, Fiction, Science

Rating

4.1 / 5 (10 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14