Bøger af Amy Allen

While post- and decolonial theorists have thoroughly debunked the idea of historical progress as a Eurocentric, imperialist, and neocolonialist fallacy, many of the most prominent contemporary thinkers associated with the Frankfurt School-Jurgen Habermas, Axel Honneth, and Rainer Forst-have defended ideas of progress, development, and modernity and have even made such ideas central to their normative claims. Can the Frankfurt School's goal of radical social change survive this critique? And what would a decolonized critical theory look like?Amy Allen fractures critical theory from within by dispensing with its progressive reading of history while retaining its notion of progress as a political imperative, so eloquently defended by Adorno. Critical theory, according to Allen, is the best resource we have for achieving emancipatory social goals. In reimagining a decolonized critical theory after the end of progress, she rescues it from oblivion and gives it a future.

When the Cold War ends in 1991 many spies, with sensitive information, are wondering if the information they have is worth more than their lives. There is growing concern the country they served is going to rid itself of any loose ends. While the CIA and KGB are scrambling to assess their resources, a small group of well prepared, seasoned agents are about to launch Encroach Rogue, a clandestine mission only a select few in the KGB know about. The man at the spearhead of the operation is whom many consider the KGB's top agent. Going into deep cover for the next twenty to forty years, Vladimir Pachenko will have who he deems to be the best agents for the job. His team believes they are going to whither away on American soil for the rest of their lives while they try to pretend to be something they are not. Vladimir Pachenko reassures all that they will be too busy to mull about with their sulking and grumbling. Once assimilated in separate locations across the United States to their environment they gathered in the town of Truth and Consequences, New Mexico. With Vlad's access to an unlimited expense account Encroach Rogue begins phase II of its mission by planting itself next to one of the largest Uranium deposits on Earth. Along with the Uranium was a rarely spoke of U.S> Military Installation that mostly functioned inside a mountain. Next was the process of establishing positions as public officials believing this would deepen their cover. It was decided they would build their own town. Run the bank, law enforcement, the church and whatever else looked to be of some advantage. At this point the rest cannot be told without giving up too much information.

Through interactions with and the examination of the natural world, poems in Mountain Offerings move from a youthful voice to a more experienced one, showing a coming-of-age in partnership, parenthood, loss, and the development of independence and self-awareness. The simplicity, beauty, and peace of the outdoors provides an ideal vehicle through which this poet explores complex human emotions. In "January in Vermont," Allen writes: The stars always shine brightest on the coldest of days,a reward just for making it. Mountain Offerings is accessible, honest, poignant, and-rooted in nature and the natural world-earthly.

The danger's in the past ... or is it? Lana's nemesis has been caught. She's happily married to her handsome firefighter, with two beautiful children and a job she loves, all of which keep her busy. But when Maui detective, Eric Stewart, informs Lana that the stalker's lawyer has brought some of his family over for support, her perfect world starts to crack. Meanwhile, when a freak accident breaks his leg, Joshua Stewart has some serious thinking to do. How can he protect his family if he can't even walk?Author note: A variant of this story was previously published in Kindle Worlds. This story is for Adults only because it contains strong language as well as some violence.

Author note: A variant of these stories were previously published in Kindle Worlds. If you bought/read this revised version of these stories as individual novellas - please don't purchase this book since you have the complete series individually. This series is for Adults only. It contains violence (including physical abuse and alluded to sexual abuse) and sex, as well as strong language. The Girl and the Fireman Series: Join Lana and Joshua through the highs and lows of exploring their newfound love. New Beginnings: They meet ...Holiday Surprises: They fall in love ...Masquerade Gone Awry: They marry ...Simmering Illusions: They live happily ever after ... or do they? There's still a madman on the loose who'd like nothing more than to end what he began so long ago with Lana.

A collection of essays introducing and assessing the work of political theorist Wendy Brown. Includes an original essay by Brown and a reply to her critics.

For the woman more accustomed to singing Missoni's praises than singing lullabies comes Amy Allen's irresistible This Little Piggy Went to Prada: Nursery Rhymes for the Blahnik Brigade. Filled from cover to cover with sumptuous full color illustrations by Eun-Kyung Kung, This Little Piggy Went to Prada presents classic nursery rhymes with a thoroughly modern and charmingly ironic spin that will make the most sleepless fashionista mom smile, even when she's knee-deep in diapers.

Does critical theory still need psychoanalysis? Amy Allen offers a cogent and convincing defense of its ongoing relevance. She draws on Freud, Klein, and Lacan to develop a more realistic strand of psychoanalytic thinking that centers on notions of loss, negativity, ambivalence, and mourning.

Some critical theorists understand the self as constituted by power relations, while others insist upon the self's autonomous capacities for critical reflection and deliberate self-transformation. Up to now, it has all too often been assumed that these two understandings of the self are incompatible. In her bold new book, Amy Allen argues that the capacity for autonomy is rooted in the very power relations that constitute the self. Allen's theoretical framework illuminates both aspects of what she calls, following Foucault, the "e;politics of our selves."e; It analyzes power in all its depth and complexity, including the complicated phenomenon of subjection, without giving up on the ideal of autonomy. Drawing on original and critical readings of a diverse group of theorists, including Michel Foucault, Jurgen Habermas, Judith Butler, and Seyla Benhabib, Allen shows how the self can be both constituted by power and capable of an autonomous self-constitution. Her argument is a significant and vital contribution to feminist theory and to critical social theory, both of which have long grappled with the relationship between power and agency.If critical theory is to be truly critical, Allen argues, it will have to pay greater attention to the phenomenon of subjection, and will have to think through the challenges that the notion of subjection poses for the critical-theoretical conception of autonomy. In particular, Allen discusses in detail how the normative aspirations of Habermasian critical theory need to be recast in light of Foucault's and Butler's account of subjection. This book is original both in its attempt to think of power and autonomy simultaneously and in its effort to bring the work of Foucault and Habermas into a productive dialogue.

Draws on the work of a diverse group of theorists in order to illustrate and construct a new feminist conception of power.