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The End of Progress - Decolonizing the Normative Foundations of Critical Theory (Hardcover)
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The End of Progress - Decolonizing the Normative Foundations of Critical Theory (Hardcover)
Series: New Directions in Critical Theory, 36
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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.
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