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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Habermas and Honett's Theory of Modernity
Theory of modernity plays a really central role for Habermas. He goes in a much more neo-Kantian direction to derive his understanding of normativity from an account of practical reason that is you know Kantian constructivist in its structure. Axel Hana has a much more explicitly and a validly kind of neo-Hagalian project where he's attempting to give a much more contextualist grounding of normativity. And then my own argument which maybe we'll talk more about but I'll just say a few words now is to try to say that from the perspective of a kind of post-colonial critique of progress all three of these options for grounding normativity are problematic
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