Outline of critical theory

Template:Short description The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to critical theory:

Critical theory – the 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. The term "Critical Theory" was first coined by Max Horkheimer in his 1937 essay "Traditional and Critical Theory".

Essence of critical theory

• Cultural studies –
• Critical theorists –
• Works in critical theory –
• Truth theory –

Concepts

• Aesthetics<ref name=crit/>
• Agency (sociology)<ref name=crit/>
• Authorship<ref name=crit/>
• History<ref name=crit/>
• Human rights<ref name=crit/>
• Ideology<ref name=crit/>
• Law<ref name=crit/>
• Money<ref name=crit/>
• Objectivity and subjectivity<ref name=crit/>
• Sex–gender distinction<ref name=crit/>

Branches of critical theory

• Social theory –
• Literary theory –
• Thing theory –
• Critical theory of technology –
• Critical legal studies –
• Hermeneutics –

Actor–network theory

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Commonly used terms

• Articulation (sociology)<ref name=crit/>
• Assemblage (philosophy)<ref name=crit/>
• Blackboxing<ref name=crit/>

African-American studies

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• Henry Louis Gates Jr. –
• Frantz Fanon –

Gender studies

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• Lauren Berlant –
• Judith Butler –
• Raewyn Connell –
• Susan McClary –
• Laura Mulvey –

Marxist theory

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Postcolonialism

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• Chinua Achebe –
  • "An Image of Africa" –
• Frantz Fanon –
  • "The Wretched of the Earth" –
• Homi Bhabha –
  • Double consciousness –

Structuralism

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• Roland Barthes –
• Ferdinand de Saussure –
• Claude Lévi-Strauss –
• Louis Althusser –

Post-structuralism

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• Roland Barthes –
• Michel Foucault –
• Julia Kristeva –
• Bruno Latour –

Commonly used terms

• Critical apparatus<ref name=crit/>
• Event (philosophy)<ref name=crit/>
• Genealogy (philosophy)<ref name=crit/>
• Heterotopia (space)<ref name=crit/>

Deconstruction

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Commonly used terms

• Bricolage<ref name=crit/>

Postmodern philosophy

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• Jean-François Lyotard –
• Gilles Deleuze –
• Félix Guattari –
• Ernesto Laclau –
• Claude Lefort –
• A Cyborg Manifesto –

Reconstructivism

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• Paulo Freire –
• John Dewey –

Psychoanalytic theory

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Schizoanalytic theory

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• Félix Guattari –
• Gilles Deleuze –
• Deleuze and Guattari –

Commonly used terms

• Assemblage (philosophy)<ref name=crit/>
• Body without organs<ref name=crit/>
• Rhizome (philosophy)<ref name=crit/>

Queer theory

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• Judith Butler –
• Heteronormativity –
• Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick –
• Gloria E. Anzaldúa –
• New Queer Cinema –
• Queer pedagogy –

Semiotics

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• Roland Barthes –
• Julia Kristeva –
• Charles Sanders Peirce –
• Ferdinand de Saussure –

Commonly used terms

• Semiotic square<ref name=crit/>

Literary theory

• Mikhail Bakhtin
• Mary Louise Pratt –
• René Girard –

Commonly used terms

• Carnivalesque<ref name=crit/>
• Chronotope<ref name=crit/>
• Dialogic<ref name=crit/>
• Narratology<ref name=crit/>
• Heteroglossia<ref name=crit/>

Theories of identity

• Private sphere – certain sector of societal life in which an individual enjoys a degree of authority, unhampered by interventions from governmental or other institutions. Examples of the private sphere are family and home. The complement or opposite of public sphere.
• Public sphere – area in social life where individuals can come together to freely discuss and identify societal problems, and through that discussion influence political action. It is "a discursive space in which individuals and groups congregate to discuss matters of mutual interest and, where possible, to reach a common judgment."
• Creolization

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

Major theorists

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External links

• Critical Theory, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• "Theory: Death is Not the End", n+1 magazine's short history of academic critical theory. Winter 2005.
• 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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