PROGRESS, NORMATIVITY, AND THE "DECOLONIZATION" OF CRITICAL THEORY: REPLY TO CRITICS

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作者
Allen, Amy [1 ]
机构
[1] Penn State Univ, Dept Philosophy, University Pk, PA 16802 USA
关键词
Critical theory; progress; decolonization; Theodor W. Adorno; Michel Foucault; Jurgen Habermas; Axel Honneth; Rainer Forst; metanormative contextualism;
D O I
10.1108/S0278-120420190000036012
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G [文化、科学、教育、体育]; C [社会科学总论];
学科分类号
03 ; 0303 ; 04 ;
摘要
My response to the thoughtful and insightful critical discussions of my book, The End of Progress, offered by Reha Kadakal, George Steinmetz, Karen Ng, and Kevin Olson, restates its motivation and rationale to defend my interpretive claims regarding Adorno, Foucault, Habermas, Honneth, and Forst by applying standards drawn from the first two theorists that are consonant with postcolonial critical theory to the perspectives, claims, and theoretical contributions of the latter three theorists. Habermas, Honneth, and Forst presume a historical present that has shaped the second, third, and fourth generations of the Frankfurt School they represent - a present that appears to be characterized by relative social and political stability - a stability that only applies in the context of Europe and the United States. Elsewhere, anti-colonial struggles, proxy wars, and even genocides were related to the persistent legacies of European colonialism and consequences of American imperialism. Yet, critical theory must expand its angle of vision and acknowledge how its own critical perspective is situated within the postcolonial present. The essays of Kadakal and Ng express concerns about my metanormative contextualism and the question of whether Adorno's work can be deployed to support it. Steinmetz challenges my "process of elimination" argument for metanormative contextualism and asks why I assume that constructivism, reconstructivism, and problematizing genealogy exhaust the available options for grounding normativity. Olson calls for a methodological decolonization to
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