Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Preface and Acknowledgments xi
4. List of Abbreviations xix
5. 1. Critical Theory and the Idea of Progress 1
6. 2. From Social Evolution to Multiple Modernities: History and Normativity in Habermas 37
7. 3. The Ineliminability of Progress? Honneth’s Hegelian Contextualism 80
8. 4. From Hegelian Reconstructivism to Kantian Constructivism: Forst’s Theory of Justification 122
9. 5. From the Dialectic of Enlightenment to the History of Madness: Foucault as Adorno’s Other “Other Son” 163
10. 6. Conclusion: “Truth,” Reason, and History 204
11. Notes 231
12. Bibliography 259
13. Index 273