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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-Jürgen Habermas, Axel Honneth, and Rainer Forst-have defended...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Allen, Amy (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2016]
Colección:New Directions in Critical Theory ; 36
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • List of Abbreviations
  • 1. Critical Theory and the Idea of Progress
  • 2. From Social Evolution to Multiple Modernities: History and Normativity in Habermas
  • 3. The 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
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index