PART I
IDENTIFYING THE CHALLENGE: A CRITICAL DISCUSSION OF THE END OF PROGRESS: DECOLONIZING THE NORMATIVE FOUNDATIONS OF CRITICAL THEORY (2016), BY AMY ALLEN
History, Critique and Progress: Amy Allen’s ‘End of Progress’ and the Normative Grounding of Critical Theory
Reha Kadakal
Inheriting Critical Theory. A Review of Amy Allen’s The End Of Progress: Decolonizing the Normative Foundations of Critical Theory
George Steinmetz
Back to Adorno: Critical Theory’s Problem of Normative Grounding
Karen Ng
Decolonizing Critical Theory
Kevin Olson
Progress, Normativity, and the “Decolonization” of Critical Theory: Reply to Critics
Amy Allen
PART II
ASSESSING THE CHALLENGE:
PROGRESS, POLITICS, AND IDEOLOGY
Nietzsche after Charlottesville
Robert J. Antonio
“How Can [We] Not Know?” Blade Runner as Cinematic Landmark in Critical Thought
Lawrence Hazelrigg
Sociology at the End of History: Profession, Vocation and Critical Practice
Daniel M. Harrison
PART III
CONFRONTING THE CHALLENGE:
THE DYNAMICS OF PROGRESS IN THE MODERN AGE
Las Vegas as the Anthropocene: The Neoliberal City as Desertification all the Way Down
Timothy W. Luke
Exchanging Social Change For Social Class: Traditional Marriage Proposals As Status And Scrip
Patricia Arend And Katherine Comeau
Sociology’s Emancipation From Philosophy: The Influence Of Francis Bacon On Emile Durkheim
Shawn Van Valkenburgh