The Challenge of Progress : Theory Between Critique and Ideology.

Front Cover -- The Challenge of Progress: Theory Between Critique and Ideology -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Notes -- References -- Part I. Identifying the Challenge: A Critical Discussion of the End of Progress: Decolonizing the Normative Foundations of Critical... -- History, Critique, and Progress: Amy Allen's "End of Progress" and the Normative Grounding of Critical Theory -- History and Normativity -- The Entanglement of Reason and Power -- Problematizing Genealogy and Metanormative Contextualism -- History, Critique, and Mediation -- Bibliography -- Inheriting Critical Theory: A Review of Amy Allen's the End of Progress: Decolonizing the Normative Foundations of Critical... -- Questions and Critiques -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Back to Adorno: Critical Theory's Problem of Normative Grounding -- Notes -- References -- Decolonizing Critical Theory -- Progress-thinking as Symptomatic -- The Displacement of Critique -- Experiments in Critical Theory -- Totaling Up the Damage -- Notes -- References -- Progress, Normativity, and the "Decolonization" of Critical Theory: Reply to Critics -- Notes -- References -- Part II. Assessing the Challenge: Progress, Politics, and Ideology -- Nietzsche after Charlottesville -- Nietzsche's Declinist Theory of Western Culture -- Nietzsche Contra Nationalism and Antisemitism -- After Charlottesville: Nietzsche and Beyond -- Notes -- References -- "How Can [We] Not Know?" Blade Runner as Cinematic Landmark in Critical Thought -- Themes Critical-Philosophical -- To Be Human -- The Relation of Deckard and Rachael -- A Concluding Thought -- Postscript (November 2017) -- Notes -- References -- Sociology at the End of History: Profession, Vocation and Critical Practice -- Introduction -- Sociology as a Profession -- Sociology as Vocation.

Sociology as Critical Practice -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Part III. Confronting the Challenge: The Dynamics of Progress in the Modern Age -- Las Vegas as the Anthropocene: The Neoliberal City as Desertification All the Way Down -- Desertification and Development -- Desertifying an Arid Place All the Way Down -- Degradation as Desertification -- Development as Desertification -- Destruction as Desertification -- Devastation as Desertification -- Environmentality/Entertainmentality as Urban Ecology -- Conclusions -- References -- Exchanging Social Change for Social Class: Traditional Marriage Proposals as Status and Scrip -- The Persistence of Traditional Marriage Proposals -- Proposal Stories in Consumer Society -- Methods -- Exchanging Gender-normative Relations for Socioeconomic Status: Marital Status and Social Stigma -- Social Status and Romantic Consumption -- Traditional Proposal Stories as Scrip -- Discussion and Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Sociology's Emancipation from Philosophy: The Influence of Francis Bacon on Émile Durkheim -- Introduction -- Against Abstract Speculation -- Against Practical Prenotions -- Against Epistemological Domination -- Rules Reprised -- Idols of the Marketplace -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- About the Contributors -- Index.

Globalization has accelerated the process of social, political, cultural, and especially economic transformations since the 1990s. Examining the choices of modern society, Dahms and contributors ask: what are the social costs of "progress"?.

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