- Outline of critical theory
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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to critical theory:
Critical theory – examination and critique of society and culture, drawing from knowledge across the social sciences and humanities. The term has two different meanings with different origins and histories: one originating in sociology and the other in literary criticism. This has led to the very literal use of 'critical theory' as an umbrella term to describe any theory founded upon critique.
Essence of critical theory
- Cultural studies –
- Major critical theorists –
- Notable works in critical theory –
- Truth theory –
Branches of critical theory
Gender studies
Main article: Gender studies- Lauren Berlant –
- Judith Butler –
- Susan McClary –
- Susan McClary's constructions of subjectivity in Franz Schubert's music –
- Laura Mulvey –
Marxist theory
Main article: Marxist philosophy- Frankfurt School –
- Theodor Adorno –
- Herbert Marcuse –
- Walter Benjamin –
- Jürgen Habermas –
- Max Horkheimer –
- Friedrich Pollock –
- Louis Althusser –
- Mikhail Bakhtin –
- Étienne Balibar –
- Ernst Bloch –
- Antonio Gramsci –
- Michael Hardt –
- Fredric Jameson –
- Ernesto Laclau –
- Georg Lukács –
- Chantal Mouffe –
- Antonio Negri –
- Valentin Voloshinov –
- Hegemony –
- Posthegemony –
Postcolonialism
Main article: Postcolonialism- Chinua Achebe –
- An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" –
- Homi Bhabha –
- Frantz Fanon –
- Edward Said –
Structuralism
Main article: StructuralismPost-structuralism
Main article: Post-structuralismDeconstruction
Main article: Deconstruction- Geoffrey Bennington –
- Hélène Cixous –
- Jonathan Culler –
- Jacques Derrida –
- Werner Hamacher –
- Geoffrey Hartman –
- Martin Heidegger –
- Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe –
- Jean-François Lyotard –
- Paul de Man –
- J. Hillis Miller –
- Jean-Luc Nancy –
- Christopher Norris –
- Avital Ronell –
- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak –
Postmodernism
Main article: PostmodernismReconstructivism
Main article: ReconstructivismPsychoanalytic theory
Main article: Psychoanalytic theory- Félix Guattari –
- Luce Irigaray –
- Teresa de Lauretis –
- Jacques Lacan –
- Julia Kristeva –
- Slavoj Žižek –
- Sigmund Freud –
Queer theory
Main article: Queer theory- Judith Butler –
- Heteronormativity –
- Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick –
- Gloria E. Anzaldúa –
- New Queer Cinema –
- Queer pedagogy –
Semiotics
Main article: SemioticsCultural anthropology
Main article: Cultural anthropologyTheories of identity
- Private sphere –
- Public sphere –
- Coolitude
- Creolization
Linguistical theories of literature
Major works
- Bloch, Ernst (1938-'47). The Principle of Hope
- Fromm, Erich (1941). The Fear of Freedom (UK)/Escape from Freedom (US)
- Horkheimer, Max; Adorno, Theodor W. (1944/'47) Dialectic of Enlightenment
- Barthes, Roland (1957). Mythologies
- Habermas, Jürgen (1962). The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere
- Marcuse, Herbert (1964). One-Dimensional Man
- Adorno, Theodor W. (1966) Negative Dialectics
- Derrida, Jacques (1967). Of Grammatology
- Derrida, Jacques (1967). Writing and Difference
- Habermas, Jürgen (1981). The Theory of Communicative Action
- Mohan, Brij (2005). Reinventing Social Work
Major theorists
Main article: List of critical theorists- Theodor Adorno –
- Louis Althusser –
- Roland Barthes –
- Jean Baudrillard –
- Jacques Lacan –
- Gilles Deleuze –
- Jacques Derrida –
- Michel Foucault –
- Erich Fromm –
- Jürgen Habermas –
- Herbert Marcuse –
- Edward Said –
- Brij Mohan –
See also
- The Frankfurt School
- Phronetic social science
External links
- Critical Theory, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- "Death is Not the End" N+1 magazine's short history of academic critical theory.
- Critical Legal Thinking A Critical Legal Studies website which uses critical theory in an analysis of law and politics.
- L. Corchia, Jürgen Habermas. A Bibliography: works and studies (1952-2010), Pisa, Edizioni Il Campano – Arnus University Books, 2010, 344 pp.
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