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The ethics and politics of progress : Dussel and the Frankfurt SchoolIn Amy Allen & Eduardo Mendieta (eds.), Decolonizing ethics: the critical theory of Enrique Dussel, The Pennsylvania State University Press. 2021.
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18Transitional Subjects: Critical Theory and Object Relations (edited book)Columbia University Press. 2019.Critical social theory has long been marked by a deep, creative, and productive relationship with psychoanalysis. Whereas Freud and Fromm were important cornerstones for the early Frankfurt School, recent thinkers have drawn on the object-relations school of psychoanalysis. Transitional Subjects is the first book-length collection devoted to the engagement of critical theory with the work of Melanie Klein, Donald Winnicott, and other members of this school. Featuring contributions from some of t…Read more
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1221. PoststructuralismIn Hauke Brunkhorst, Regina Kreide & Cristina Lafont (eds.), The Habermas handbook, Columbia University Press. pp. 177-182. 2018.
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6Gender, Macht, VernunftIn Hilge Landweer, Catherine Newmark, Christine Kley & Simone Miller (eds.), Philosophie und die Potenziale der Gender Studies, Transcript. pp. 37-62. 2012.
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79. Adorno, Foucault, and the End of ProgressIn Cristina Lafont & Penelope Deutscher (eds.), Critical Theory in Critical Times: Transforming the Global Political and Economic Order, Columbia University Press. pp. 183-206. 2017.
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4Chapter 1 IntroductionIn Amy Allen & Eduardo Mendieta (eds.), Power, neoliberalism, and the reinvention of politics: the critical theory of Wendy Brown, The Pennsylvania State University Press. pp. 1-16. 2022.
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41Critique on the couch: why critical theory needs psychoanalysisColumbia University Press. 2020.Does critical theory still need psychoanalysis? In Critique on the Couch, Amy Allen offers a cogent and convincing defense of its ongoing relevance. Countering the overly rationalist and progressivist interpretations of psychoanalysis put forward by contemporary critical theorists such as Jürgen Habermas and Axel Honneth, Allen argues that the work of Melanie Klein offers an underutilized resource. She draws on Freud, Klein, and Lacan to develop a more realistic strand of psychoanalytic thinkin…Read more
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368In her latest book, The End of Progress, Amy Allen embarks on an ambitious and much-needed project: to decolonize contemporary Frankfurt School Critical Theory. As with all of her books, this is an exceptionally well-written and well-argued book. Allen strives to avoid making assertions without backing them up via close and careful textual reading of the thinkers she engages in her book. In this article, I will state why this book makes a central contribution to contemporary critical theory (in …Read more
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369The Contemporary Frankfurt School's Eurocentrism Unveiled: The Contribution of Amy AllenPolitical Theory 46 (5): 772-800. 2018.In her latest book, The End of Progress, Amy Allen embarks on an ambitious and much-needed project: to decolonize contemporary Frankfurt School Critical Theory. As with all of her books, this is an exceptionally well-written and well-argued book. Allen strives to avoid making assertions without backing them up via close and careful textual reading of the thinkers she engages in her book. In this article, I will state why this book makes a central contribution to contemporary critical theory (in …Read more
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85Emancipation, Progress, Critique: Debating Amy Allen’s The End of ProgressContemporary Political Theory 17 (4): 511-541. 2018.
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77. The History of Historicity: The Critique of Reason in FoucaultIn ChristopherVE Penfield, Vernon W. Cisney & Nicolae Morar (eds.), Between Foucault and Derrida, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 125-137. 2016.
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51SPEP Co-director's Address: Progress, Philosophical and OtherwiseJournal of Speculative Philosophy 29 (3): 265-282. 2015.The topic of my remarks is progress, but I should note at the outset that I have structured this article as something like a theme with variations, rather than a tightly interconnected, progressive argument. I am interested in problematizing how the concept of progress is deployed across a range of discussions. I start with the role of progress in my own field of critical social theory, and then move on to consider the idea of philosophical progress, and finally connect this idea to different vi…Read more
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191Feminist narratives and social/political change (review)Philosophy and Social Criticism 26 (4): 127-132. 2000.Lara, Maria Pia, Moral Textures: Feminist Narratives in the Public Sphere (reviewed by Amy Allen).
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46IntroductionJournal of Speculative Philosophy 29 (3): 261-264. 2015.This is an introduction to a volume of articles containing highlights from the fifty-third Annual Meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP) hosted by Loyola University–New Orleans with Tulane University from October 23–25, 2014. Many of the articles included here mine the rich and productive vein of post-Kantian critical philosophy that inspires so much work in Continental philosophy; hence the title of our volume is “Legacies of Critique.” The volume opens with …Read more
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10IntroductionInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 10 (2). 2002.This Article does not have an abstract
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1Hannah ArendtRoutledge. 2008.Hannah Arendt was one of the most original and influential social and political theorists of the 20th century. This volume brings together important English-language essays on Arendt's contributions to social and political philosophy.
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67Foucault and the politics of our selvesHistory of the Human Sciences 24 (4): 43-59. 2011.Exploring the apparent tension between Foucault’s analyses of technologies of domination – the ways in which the subject is constituted by power–knowledge relations – and of technologies of the self – the ways in which individuals constitute themselves through practices of freedom – this article endeavors to makes two points: first, the interpretive claim that Foucault’s own attempts to analyse both aspects of the politics of our selves are neither contradictory nor incoherent; and, second, the …Read more
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65History, critique, and freedom: the historical a priori in Husserl and FoucaultContinental Philosophy Review 49 (1): 1-11. 2016.
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IntroductionIn Amy Allen & Eduardo Mendieta (eds.), Decolonizing ethics: the critical theory of Enrique Dussel, The Pennsylvania State University Press. 2021.
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18Decolonizing ethics: the critical theory of Enrique Dussel (edited book)The Pennsylvania State University Press. 2021.A collection of essays on the work of Latin American philosopher Enrique Dussel, focusing on his ethics of liberation.
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IntroductionIn Amy Allen & Eduardo Mendieta (eds.), Power, neoliberalism, and the reinvention of politics: the critical theory of Wendy Brown, The Pennsylvania State University Press. 2022.
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28Power, neoliberalism, and the reinvention of politics: the critical theory of Wendy Brown (edited book)The Pennsylvania State University Press. 2022.A collection of essays introducing and assessing the work of political theorist Wendy Brown. Includes an original essay by Brown and a reply to her critics.
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22Working through Critical Theory’s Colonial UnconsciousGraduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 41 (1): 185-205. 2020.
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History, Critique, and Freedom: The Historical A Priori in Husserl and FoucaultSpringer, Continental Philosophy Review. 2016.
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73Normativity, Power, and Gender: Reply to CriticsCritical Horizons 15 (1): 52-68. 2014.In this paper, I respond to the critiques of my book, The Politics of Our Selves: Power, Autonomy, and Gender in Contemporary Critical Theory, made by Nikolas Kompridis, Paul Patton, Allison Weir and Moira Gatens. My response is organized around three overlapping themes that are raised in these four astute papers: a defence of my account of normativity, of my reading of Foucault’s conception of power, and of my analysis of gender subordination/identity.
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22Feminism as critique: comments on Johanna Oksala’s feminist experiencesContinental Philosophy Review 52 (1): 115-123. 2018.
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27The Cambridge Habermas Lexicon (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2018.Over a career spanning nearly seven decades, Jürgen Habermas - one of the most important European philosophers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries - has produced a prodigious and influential body of work. In this Lexicon, authored by an international team of scholars, over 200 entries define and explain the key concepts, categories, philosophemes, themes, debates, and names associated with the entire constellation of Habermas's thought. The entries explore the historical, philosophical a…Read more
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57Book ReviewsSandra Bartky,. “Sympathy and Solidarity” and Other Essays.Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002. Pp. 173. $69.00 ; $23.95 (review)Ethics 115 (3): 599-601. 2005.
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