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{{Short description|Approach to social philosophy}} <!--... Attention: THIS IS AN OUTLINE part of the set of 830+ outlines listed at [[Wikipedia:Contents/Outlines]]. Wikipedia outlines are a special type of list article. They make up one of Wikipedia's content navigation systems See [[Wikipedia: Outlines]] and [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Outlines]] for more details. Further improvements to this outline are on the way ...--> The following [[Outline (list)|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 science]]s 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". {{TOC limit|limit=2}} == Essence of critical theory == * [[Cultural studies]] – * [[List of critical theorists|Critical theorists]] – * [[List of works in critical theory|Works in critical theory]] – * [[Truth theory]] – ===Concepts=== * [[Aesthetics]]<ref name=crit/> * [[Agency (sociology)]]<ref name=crit/> * [[Author]]ship<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]] – * [[Andrew Feenberg|Critical theory of technology]] – * [[Critical legal studies]] – * [[Hermeneutics]] – == Actor–network theory == {{Main|Actor–network theory}} ===Commonly used terms=== * [[Articulation (sociology)]]<ref name=crit/> * [[Assemblage (philosophy)]]<ref name=crit/> * [[Blackboxing]]<ref name=crit/> ==African-American studies== {{Main|Afro-pessimism (United States)}} {{See also|Postcolonialism|Critical race theory}} * [[Henry Louis Gates Jr.]] – * [[Frantz Fanon]] – ==Gender studies== {{Main|Gender studies}} * [[Lauren Berlant]] – * [[Judith Butler]] – * [[Raewyn Connell]] – * [[Susan McClary]] – * [[Laura Mulvey]] – ==Marxist theory== {{Main|Marxist philosophy}} {{Columns-list|colwidth=22em| * [[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]] – * [[Slavoj Žižek]] – * [[Hegemony]] – * [[Posthegemony]] – }} ===Commonly used terms=== {{Columns-list|colwidth=22em| * [[Marx's theory of alienation]]<ref name=crit/> * [[Capital (Marxism)]]<ref name=crit/> * [[Commodity fetishism]]<ref name=crit/> * [[Division of labour]]<ref name=crit/> * [[Exchange value]]<ref name=crit/> * [[Feudalism]]<ref name=crit/> * [[Historical materialism]]<ref name=crit/> * [[Labour power]]<ref name=crit/> * [[Mode of production]]<ref name=crit/> * [[Neo-Marxism]]<ref name=crit/> * [[Praxis (process)]]<ref name=crit/> * [[Proletariat]]<ref name=crit/> * [[Relations of production]]<ref name=crit/> * [[Surplus value]]<ref name=crit/> * [[Symbolic capital]]<ref name=crit/> * [[Use value]]<ref name=crit/> * [[Usury]]<ref name=crit/> }} ==Postcolonialism== {{Main|Postcolonialism}} * [[Chinua Achebe]] – ** "[[An Image of Africa]]" – * [[Frantz Fanon]] – ** "[[The Wretched of the Earth]]" – * [[Homi K. Bhabha|Homi Bhabha]] – ** [[Double consciousness]] – ==Structuralism== {{Main|Structuralism}} * [[Roland Barthes]] – * [[Ferdinand de Saussure]] – * [[Claude Lévi-Strauss]] – * [[Louis Althusser]] – ==Post-structuralism== {{Main|Post-structuralism}} * [[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== {{Main|Deconstruction}} {{Columns-list|colwidth=22em| * [[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 (critic)|Christopher Norris]] – * [[Avital Ronell]] – * [[Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak]] – }} ===Commonly used terms=== * [[Bricolage]]<ref name=crit/> ==Postmodern philosophy== {{Main|Postmodern philosophy}} * [[Jean-François Lyotard]] – * [[Gilles Deleuze]] – * [[Félix Guattari]] – * [[Ernesto Laclau]] – * [[Claude Lefort]] – * [[A Cyborg Manifesto]] – ==Reconstructivism== {{Main|Reconstructivism}} * [[Paulo Freire]] – * [[John Dewey]] – ==Psychoanalytic theory== {{Main|Psychoanalytic theory}} {{Columns-list|colwidth=22em| * [[Luce Irigaray]] – * [[Teresa de Lauretis]] – * [[Jacques Lacan]] – * [[Julia Kristeva]] – * [[Slavoj Žižek]] – * [[Sigmund Freud]] – ** [[The Interpretation of Dreams]] – ** [[On Narcissism]] – ** [[Totem and Taboo]] – ** [[Beyond the Pleasure Principle]] – ** [[The Ego and the Id]] – ** [[The Future of an Illusion]] – ** [[Civilization and Its Discontents]] – ** [[Moses and Monotheism]] – }} ===Commonly used terms=== {{Columns-list|colwidth=22em| * [[Abjection]]<ref name=crit>{{cite book | last = Felluga | first = Dino Franco | date = 2015 | title = Critical Theory: Key Concepts | publisher = Routledge | isbn = 978-0-415-69565-7}}</ref> * [[Cathexis]]<ref name=crit/> * [[Khôra|Chora]]<ref name=crit/> * [[Condensation (psychology)]]<ref name=crit/> * [[Content (Freudian dream analysis)]]<ref name=crit/> * [[Death Drive]]<ref name=crit/> * [[Desire]]<ref name=crit/> * [[Displacement (psychology)]]<ref name=crit/> * [[Ego ideal]]<ref name=crit/> * [[Fetishism]]<ref name=crit/> * [[Fixation (psychology)]]<ref name=crit/> * [[Id, ego and super-ego]]<ref name=crit/> * [[Gaze]]<ref name=crit/> * [[Hysteria]]<ref name=crit/> * [[Identification (psychology)]]<ref name=crit/> * [[Instinct]]<ref name=crit/> * [[Introjection]]<ref name=crit/> * [[Jouissance]]<ref name=crit/> * [[Lack (psychoanalysis)]]<ref name=crit/> * [[Libido]]<ref name=crit/> * [[Mirror stage]]<ref name=crit/> * [[Name of the Father]]<ref name=crit/> * [[Narcissism]]<ref name=crit/> * [[Neurosis]]<ref name=crit/> * [[Objet petit a]]<ref name=crit/> * [[Oedipus complex]]<ref name=crit/> * [[Other (philosophy)]]<ref name=crit/> * [[Perversion]]<ref name=crit/> * [[Pleasure principle (psychology)]]<ref name=crit/> * [[Psychological projection]]<ref name=crit/> * [[Psychosexual development]]<ref name=crit/> * [[Psychological projection]]<ref name=crit/> * [[Reality principle]]<ref name=crit/> * [[Regression (psychology)]]<ref name=crit/> * [[Repression (psychoanalysis)]]<ref name=crit/> * [[Signs and symptoms]]<ref name=crit/> * Suture/Quilting Point<ref name=crit/> * [[Sublime (philosophy)]]<ref name=crit/> * [[The Imaginary (psychoanalysis)]]<ref name=crit/> * [[The Real]]<ref name=crit/> * [[The Symbolic]]<ref name=crit/> * [[Transference]]<ref name=crit/> * [[Uncanny]]<ref name=crit/> * [[Unconscious mind]]<ref name=crit/> }} ==Schizoanalytic theory== {{Main|Schizoanalysis}} {{See also|Ecosophy}} * [[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== {{Main|Queer theory}} * [[Judith Butler]] – * [[Heteronormativity]] – * [[Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick]] – * [[Gloria E. Anzaldúa]] – * [[New Queer Cinema]] – * [[Queer pedagogy]] – ==Semiotics== {{Main|Semiotics}} * [[Roland Barthes]] – * [[Julia Kristeva]] – * [[Charles Sanders Peirce]] – * [[Ferdinand de Saussure]] – ===Commonly used terms=== * [[Semiotic square]]<ref name=crit/> ==Literary theory== {{Broader|Literary criticism}} * [[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)/''[[The Fear of Freedom|Escape from Freedom]]'' (US) *Horkheimer, Max; Adorno, Theodor W. (1944–47). ''[[Dialectic of Enlightenment]]'' *Barthes, Roland (1957). ''[[Mythologies (book)|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== {{Main|List of critical theorists}} {{Columns-list|colwidth=22em| * [[Theodor Adorno]] – * [[Max Horkheimer]] – * [[Louis Althusser]] – * [[Roland Barthes]] – * [[Jean Baudrillard]] – * [[Jacques Lacan]] – * [[Jacques Derrida]] – * [[Erich Fromm]] – * [[Jürgen Habermas]] – * [[Herbert Marcuse]] – }} == References == {{Reflist}} == External links == {{sister project links|Critical theory}} * [http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/critical-theory/ Critical Theory], [[Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy]] * [https://nplusonemag.com/issue-2/the-intellectual-situation/death-is-not-the-end/ "Theory: Death is Not the End"], ''[[n+1]]'' magazine's short history of academic critical theory. Winter 2005. * [https://criticallegalthinking.com/ Critical Legal Thinking]: A [[critical legal studies]] website which uses critical theory in an analysis of law and politics. * L. Corchia, [https://books.google.com/books?id=jw3klIgEVZoC&dq=J%C3%BCrgen+Habermas.+A+Bibliography:+works+and+studies+(1952-2010),&pg=PA238 ''Jürgen Habermas. A Bibliography: works and studies (1952-2010)''], Pisa, Edizioni Il Campano – Arnus University Books, 2010, 344 pp. * {{cite journal|author=Rivera Vicencio, E.|year=2012|title=Foucault: His influence over accounting and management research. Building of a map of Foucault's approach|journal=International Journal of Critical Accounting|volume=4|number=5/6|pages=728–756|doi=10.1504/IJCA.2012.051466|url=http://www.inderscience.com/info/inarticle.php?artid=51466|url-access=subscription}} * {{cite journal|author=Rivera Vicencio, E.|year=2014|title=The firm and corporative governmentality. From the perspective of Foucault|journal=International Journal of Economics and Accounting|volume=5|issue=4|pages=281–305|doi=10.1504/IJEA.2014.067421|url=http://www.inderscience.com/info/inarticle.php?artid=67421|url-access=subscription}} {{Outline footer}} [[Category:Outlines of the humanities|Critical theory]] [[Category:Outlines|Critical theory]] [[Category:Critical theory| Outline]]
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