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While post- and decolonial theorists have thoroughly debunked the idea of historical progress as a Eurocentric, imperialist, and neocolonialist fallacy, many of the most prominent contemporary thinkers associated with the Frankfurt School--Jürgen Habermas, Axel Honneth, and Rainer Forst--have defended ideas of progress, development, and modernity and have even made such ideas central to their normative claims. Can the Frankfurt School's goal of radical social change survive this critique? And what would a decolonized critical theory look like?

Amy Allen fractures critical theory from within by dispensing with its progressive reading of history while retaining its notion of progress as a political imperative, so eloquently defended by Adorno. Critical theory, according to Allen, is the best resource we have for achieving emancipatory social goals. In reimagining a decolonized critical theory after the end of progress, she rescues it from oblivion and gives it a future.

• Preface and Acknowledgments
• List of Abbreviations
• Critical Theory and the Idea of Progress
• Progress and the Normativity of Critical Theory
• The Coloniality of Power: The Political-Epistemological Critique of Progress as a "Fact"
• Problematizing Progress
• Outline of Book
• From Social Evolution to Multiple Modernities: History and Normativity in Habermas
• The Last Marxist? Social Evolution and the Reconstruction of Historical Materialism
• Modernity and Normativity in The Theory of Communicative Action
• From Hegel to Kant and Back Again: Habermas's Discourse Ethics
• Eurocentrism, Multiple Modernities, and Historical Progress
• The Ineliminability of Progress? Honneth's Hegelian Contextualism
• Progress and Critical Theory
• Social Freedom as Progress
• The Ineliminability of Progress?
• Historical Progress and Normativity
• From Hegelian Reconstructivism to Kantian Constructivism: Forst's Theory of Justification
• Progress Toward Justice
• Constructivism vs. Reconstructivism, Universalism vs. Contextualism: The Basic Right to Justification
• Practical Reason, Authoritarianism, and Subjection
• Putting First Things First: Power and the Methodology of Critical Theory
• From the Dialectic of Enlightenment to the History of Madness: Foucault as Adorno's Other Other Son
• The Dialectic of Progress: Adorno and the Philosophy of History
• De-Dialectizing Hegel: Foucault and the Historical historical a priori
• Critique as Historical Problematization: Adorno and Foucault
• Adorno, Foucault, and the "Postcolonial"
• Conclusion: "Truth," Reason, and History
• Unlearning, Epistemic Humility, and Metanormative Contextualism
• The Impurity of Practical Reason (Reprise)
• Progress, in History
• Coda: Criticalizing Postcolonial Theory
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index