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The end of progress : decolonizing the normative foundations of 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, Axel Honneth, and Rainer Forst have defended ideas of progre...
| Clasificación: | B809.3 A4.43 |
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2016].
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| Colección: | New directions in critical theory
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Critical theory and the idea of progress.
- 2. From social evolution to multiple modernities : history and normativity in Habermas.
- 3. Ineliminability of progress? Honneth's Hegelian contextualism.
- 4. From Hegelian reconstructivism to Kantian constructivism : Forst's theory of justification.
- 5. From the Dialectic of Enlightenment to the History of Madness : Foucault as Adorno's other "other son".
- 6. Conclusion : "truth," reason, and history.