Liberating Critical Theory: Eurocentrism, Normativity, and Capitalism: Symposium on Amy Allen’s <i>The End of Progress: Decolonizing the Normative Foundations of Critical Theory</i>, Columbia University Press, 2016

Leeb, Claudia; Nichols, Robert; Winter, Yves; Allen, Amy

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“…O primeiro possível problema observado é que as suposições "sobre os outros culturais", especialmente sobre os "outros raciais" são feitas no nível inconsciente ou pré-consciente e não tanto no nível discursivo nas interações diárias. A professora pergunta se o modelo de Allen de fundamentar a normatividade na ideia de humildade se beneficiaria de uma explicação psicanalítica do inconsciente, que nos mostra que mesmo quando tentamos refletir conscientemente sobre nossos compromissos normativos e ser humildes sobre eles, ainda podemos nutrir a convicção inconsciente de que somos moral e politicamente superiores aos "outros raciais", o que se desenrola no diálogo de outras maneiras, como reações físicas aversivas em relação a esses (LEEB et al 2016 A preocupação central de Leeb (2016, p. 06) com a sugestão de Allen de que devemos nos afastar de Marx é que ela se encontra aberta à crítica de que ela própria abandona uma crítica rigorosa do capitalismo. Aqui, Allen, em vez de corrigir a tendência problemática da escola contemporânea de Frankfurt de abandonar uma crítica rigorosa do capitalismo, que ela mesma observa como um problema (ALLEN, 2016, p. 40), parece reforçar essa tendência.…”

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“…2 Just the tip of the iceberg: Jay (2019); Sharpe (2019); Azmanova et al (2018);Frumer (2017); Kramer (2017); Leeb, Nichols, Winter, and Allen (2018); Sheth (2017); Telios (2017); Hedrick (2016). 3 These are related but not equivalent formulations, which designate not one issue but allude to several distinctive ways in which we can understand what the debate was about-for this understanding was contested throughout the debate itself.…”

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“…22Just the tip of the iceberg: Jay (2019); Sharpe (2019); Azmanova et al. (2018); Frumer (2017); Kramer (2017); Leeb, Nichols, Winter, and Allen (2018); Sheth (2017); Telios (2017); Hedrick (2016). …”

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One step forward, two steps back: Idealism in critical theory

Vogelmann

2021

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Amy 1 Allen's book The End of Progress: Decolonizing the Normative Foundations of Critical Theory (Allen, 2016, hereafter EP) has been widely read, discussed, and criticized. 2 Her harsh verdict on contemporary Frankfurt School critical theory, which animates the debate, is all the more devastating because it is based neither on nostalgic adoration of Adorno's writings nor on over-inflated hatred of Habermas's theory, two well-known sources of severe criticisms of critical theory. On the contrary, Allen's book on the disastrous state of contemporary Frankfurt School critical theory fascinates because it is based on sympathy, even fondness, for those theories which she criticizes, especially Habermas's. Most prominent in the unfolding debate have been two strands of Allen's complex argumentation, namely her critique of founding critical theory's normativity on backward-looking progress ("progress as a fact," see EP, pp. 11−13) and her charge of Eurocentrism against Habermas, Honneth, and Forst. This is not surprising, given that these two criticisms feature in the book's title.Yet there is a third strand in Allen's book that demonstrates her fondness of Frankfurt School critical theory, brings into view the full force of her critique, and allows us to examine and extend it one step further. This third strand is Allen's concern for an adequate conceptualization of reason's intertwinement with power, and I argue that it really is the backbone of her argumentation that organizes the other two more prominent strands. On my interpretation, Allen returns us to the core of the discontinued yet unfinished debate of the 1980s and early 1990s about the relationship between normativity and facticity, reason and power, critique and its normative foundations. 3 In her readings of Habermas, Honneth, and Forst, she uses the critique of "progress as a fact" and of Eurocentrism in order to demonstrate that their accounts of reason's intertwinement with power are too idealistic for critical theory (Section 2).However, I argue that the criteria for an adequate conceptualization, ingeniously worked out by Allen in her combined reading of Adorno and Foucault, are not met by her own proposal. She relies on Anthony Laden's account of reasoning as a social practice but limits its conceptual status by contextualism on the metanormative level. Yet both Laden's account as well as Allen's distinction between normative and metanormative commitments are in tension with her criteria of essentially impure reason and radical self-reflexivity (Section 3).This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Critical theory and North American indigenous thought

Piccolo

2023

European Journal of Political Theory

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In recent years, critical theorists such as Amy Allen and Robert Nichols have aimed to “decolonize critical theory,” by which they mean to make the tradition of critical theory less hostile to, and more compatible with, the ideas and movements of Indigenous peoples. In this article, however, I argue these efforts have failed to consider the relationship of two key elements of critical theory with Indigenous thought: that all normativity is generated immanently to historically and socially located struggle, and that normativity is negatively defined. These two elements, I argue, are not fully endorsed in the work of many Indigenous thinkers. By drawing on the work of a diverse group of contemporary Indigenous scholars, I show, first, that nature is generally a relevant normative category in Indigenous thinking in a way that is irreducible to historical location. Second, I argue that for many Native scholars, right action is not simply a matter of resisting colonialism. While resistance features heavily, of course, I suggest that Indigenous thinking often includes a substantive positive vision of living well that has not—as of yet—been considered by critical theorists.

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Liberating Critical Theory: Eurocentrism, Normativity, and Capitalism: Symposium on Amy Allen’s The End of Progress: Decolonizing the Normative Foundations of Critical Theory, Columbia University Press, 2016

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Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento: um olhar sobre a humanidade

Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento: um olhar sobre a humanidade

One step forward, two steps back: Idealism in critical theory

Critical theory and North American indigenous thought

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