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Amy Allen: The End of Progress
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“My anxiety about the future of critical theory is partly that if it doesn’t figure out a way to engage more with other kinds of critical traditions—postcolonial theory is one example, but also feminist theory and queer theory and critical philosophy of race—then I worry about the extent to which this project has a robust future.”
The End of Progress: Decolonizing the Normative Foundations of Critical Theory (New Directions in Critical Theory) By Amy Allen 
Amy Allen discusses her book The End of Progress: Decolonizing the Normative Foundations of Critical Theory with Chris Richardson. She is Liberal Arts Professor of Philosophy and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Head of the Philosophy Department at Penn State University. Allen is the author of The Power of Feminist Theory: Domination, Resistance, Solidarity; The Politics of Our Selves: Power, Autonomy, and Gender in Contemporary Critical Theory; and The End of Progress: Decolonizing the Normative Foundations of Critical Theory. She is also co-editor in chief of Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory and general editor of the Columbia University Press book series New Directions in Critical Theory.
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