Table of Contents

Contents

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction (Amy Allen and Eduardo Mendieta)

2. “Resistance to the Perpetual Danger of Relapse”: Moral Progress and Social Change (Rahel Jaeggi)

3. Decentered Social Selves: Interrogating Alienation in Conversation with Rahel Jaeggi (John Christman)

4. The Normativity of Forms of Life (Frederick Neuhouser)

5. In Search of the Negative in Rahel Jaeggi’s Kritik von Lebensformen (Max Pensky)

6. What’s Critical about Critical Theory?—Redux (Rocío Zambrana)

7. On the Politics of Forms of Life (Daniel Loick)

8. Forms of Life, Progress, and Social Struggle: On Rahel Jaeggi’s Critical Theory (Robin Celikates)

9. Progress, Normativity, and the Dynamics of Social Change: An Exchange between Rahel Jaeggi and Amy Allen (Conducted by Eva von Redecker)

10. Reply to my Critics (Rahel Jaeggi)

Contributors

Index

About the Author

Amy Allen is Liberal Arts Research Professor of Philosophy and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Head of the Department of Philosophy at Penn State University.

Eduardo Mendieta is Professor of Philosophy and Associate Director of the Rock Ethics Institute at Penn State University.