Outline of critical theory
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 –
- Critical theorists –
- Works in critical theory –
- Truth theory –
Branches of critical theory
- Social theory –
- Literary theory –
- Thing theory –
- Critical theory of technology –
- Critical legal studies –
Gender studies
Main article: Gender studies
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 –
- Slavoj Žižek –
- Hegemony –
- Posthegemony –
Postcolonialism
Main article: Postcolonialism
Structuralism
Main article: Structuralism
Post-structuralism
Main article: Post-structuralism
Deconstruction
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: Postmodernism
Reconstructivism
Main article: Reconstructivism
Psychoanalytic 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: Semiotics
Cultural anthropology
Main article: Cultural anthropology
Theories of identity
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
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
External links
- This outline displayed as a mindmap, at wikimindmap.com
- 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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