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| Language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages | 357-375 |
| Number of pages | 19 |
| Journal | European Journal of Social Theory |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| Early online date | 14 Jun 2017 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Aug 2018 |
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Keywords
- Adorno
- critique
- Eurocentrism
- progress
- Wagner
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The dialectic of critique and progress : comparing Peter Wagner and Theodor Adorno. / Johnson, Pauline.
In: European Journal of Social Theory, Vol. 21, No. 3, 08.2018, p. 357-375.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
TY - JOUR
T1 - The dialectic of critique and progress
T2 - European Journal of Social Theory
AU - Johnson, Pauline
PY - 2018/8
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N2 - As long as critique trails in the wake of progress, a more radical game-changing interest in its reconstruction remains blocked. This article will contrast the reforming approach adopted by Peter Wagner with Theodor Adorno's attempt to reconstruct the normative foundations of historical progress. The intention here is to use the radicalism of Adorno's critical recovery of this ideal in order to clarify and strengthen the social democratic utopianism that underlies Wagner's reconstruction of progress. The final section of the article extends the significance of this modelling of the dialectics between critique and progress, using it to guide a brief evaluation of some attempts to reclaim critique from its histories of complicity in repressive, Eurocentric versions of historical progress.
AB - As long as critique trails in the wake of progress, a more radical game-changing interest in its reconstruction remains blocked. This article will contrast the reforming approach adopted by Peter Wagner with Theodor Adorno's attempt to reconstruct the normative foundations of historical progress. The intention here is to use the radicalism of Adorno's critical recovery of this ideal in order to clarify and strengthen the social democratic utopianism that underlies Wagner's reconstruction of progress. The final section of the article extends the significance of this modelling of the dialectics between critique and progress, using it to guide a brief evaluation of some attempts to reclaim critique from its histories of complicity in repressive, Eurocentric versions of historical progress.
KW - Adorno
KW - critique
KW - Eurocentrism
KW - progress
KW - Wagner
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SP - 357
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JO - European Journal of Social Theory
JF - European Journal of Social Theory
SN - 1368-4310
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