Amy Allen, “The End of Progress: Decolonizing the Normative Foundations of Critical Theory” (Columbia UP, 2016)
New Books in Critical Theory
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Habermasan Hoverned - A Review
Habermasan haunted is really doesn't apply in some ways to force because his strategy for grounding normativity is so different. I think what forced is doing is it looks a lot more like ideal theory than it does like critical theory right and then the other kind of criticism that I pursue has to do with the conception of practical reason as such rather than these embedded historically specific you know forms of practical rationality. That leaves him open to a different kind of post-colonial challenge which has been really well articulated by people like Gayatri Spivak but and others as well.
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