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Index
Cover
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
1. Critical Theory and the Idea of Progress
Progress and the Normativity of Critical Theory
The Coloniality of Power: The Political-Epistemological Critique of Progress as a “Fact”
Problematizing Progress
Outline of Book
2. From Social Evolution to Multiple Modernities: History and Normativity in Habermas
The Last Marxist? Social Evolution and the Reconstruction of Historical Materialism
Modernity and Normativity in The Theory of Communicative Action
From Hegel to Kant and Back Again: Habermas’s Discourse Ethics
Eurocentrism, Multiple Modernities, and Historical Progress
3. The Ineliminability of Progress? Honneth’s Hegelian Contextualism
Progress and Critical Theory
Social Freedom as Progress
The Ineliminability of Progress?
Historical Progress and Normativity
4. From Hegelian Reconstructivism to Kantian Constructivism: Forst’s Theory of Justification
Progress Toward Justice
Constructivism vs. Reconstructivism, Universalism vs. Contextualism: The Basic Right to Justification
Practical Reason, Authoritarianism, and Subjection
Putting First Things First: Power and the Methodology of Critical Theory
5. From the Dialectic of Enlightenment to the History of Madness: Foucault as Adorno’s Other “Other Son”
The Dialectic of Progress: Adorno and the Philosophy of History
De-Dialectizing Hegel: Foucault and the Historical historical a priori
Critique as Historical Problematization: Adorno and Foucault
Adorno, Foucault, and the “Postcolonial”
6. Conclusion: “Truth,” Reason, and History
Unlearning, Epistemic Humility, and Metanormative Contextualism
The Impurity of Practical Reason (Reprise)
Progress, in History
Coda: Criticalizing Postcolonial Theory
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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