The End of Progress: Decolonizing the Normative Foundations of Critical Theory (New Directions in Critical Theory Book 36)

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 Reconstructivism To Kantian Constructivism : Forst's Theory Of Justification -- From The Dialectic Of Enlightenment To The History Of Madness : Foucault As Adorno's Other Other Son -- Conclusion : Truth, Reason, And History. Amy Allen. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 259-272) And Index. 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 JuÌ8rgen 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.-- Provided by Publisher 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.-- Provided by Publisher 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. Cover......Page 1 Title - Half......Page 2 Title - Series......Page 3 Title - Complete......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 Dedication......Page 6 Quotations......Page 8 Table of Contents......Page 10 Preface and Acknowledgments......Page 12 List of Abbreviations......Page 20 1. Critical Theory and the Idea of Progress......Page 26 2. From Social Evolution to Multiple Modernities: History and Normativity in Habermas......Page 62 3. The Ineliminability of Progress? Honneth’s Hegelian Contextualism......Page 105 4. From Hegelian Reconstructivism to Kantian Constructivism: Forst’s Theory of Justification......Page 147 5. From the Dialectic of Enlightenment to the History of Madness: Foucault as Adorno’s Other Other Son......Page 188 6. Conclusion: “Truth,” Reason, and History......Page 229 Notes......Page 256 Bibliography......Page 284 Index......Page 298 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.