Interesting, and a useful synoptic overview. I, of course, agree with her that Habermas is the one who finished off Critical Theory. She does not comment on the fact that discourse ethics was always predicated on a highly implausible theory of meaning and language use.

UPDATE: A reader points out, fairly, that this comment by Professor Fraser could be understood as alluding to this: “I had little sympathy for attempts to establish ‘normative foundations’ for critical theory in the anthropological depths of a putative human disposition to seek agreement via communication.” The real problem, though, is that discourse ethics has no foundation in any plausible semantic or linguistic theory.