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Amy Allen, The End of Progress: Decolonizing the Normative Foundations of Critical Theory (New York: Columbia University Press, 2016), 229.
For further discussion of this background assumption, see Rahel Jaeggi and Amy Allen, “Progress, Normativity, and the Dynamics of Social Change: A Conversation with Rahel Jaeggi and Amy Allen,” Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 37: 2 (2016): 225–251; and Allen, “Beyond Kant versus Hegel: An Alternative Strategy for Grounding the Normativity of Critique,” in Feminism, Capitalism, and Critique: Essays in Honor of Nancy Fraser, ed. Banu Bargu and Chiara Bottici (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).
As an aside to this aside, I don’t think that Vivek Chibber is a viable counterexample to this claim, since he most definitely does not identify himself as a postcolonial theorist. His book, Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital (London: Verso, 2013) – which I do discuss in my book – is a broadside against “postcolonial theory,” though it really focuses only on Subaltern Studies.
The End of Progress, 158.
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Allen, A. How Not to Critique the Critique of Progress: A Reply to Payrow Shabani. J Value Inquiry 51, 681–687 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10790-017-9614-9
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