The End of Progress: Decolonizing the Normative Foundations of Critical Theory: 36 - Rilegato

Allen, Amy

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ISBN 10: 0231173245 ISBN 13: 9780231173247

Casa editrice: Columbia Univ Pr, 2016

Riassunto

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 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.

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L'autore:

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 ofThe 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.

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• Editore: Columbia Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0231173245
• ISBN 13: 9780231173247
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 280