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Critical theory finds applications in various fields of study, including psychoanalysis, film theory, literary theory, cultural studies, history, communication theory, philosophy, and feminist theory. [4] Critical Theory (capitalized) is a school of thought practiced by the Frankfurt School theoreticians Herbert Marcuse, Theodor Adorno, Walter ...
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 ...
This is a list of important and seminal works in the field of critical theory. Otto Maria Carpeaux. História da Literatura Ocidental, 8 vol. (Portuguese, 1959–66) [1] M. H. Abrams. The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition; Angela Davis. Women, Race, and Class; Are Prisons Obsolete? Theodor Adorno. Aesthetic Theory ...
Telos is a quarterly, independent peer-reviewed scholarly journal that publishes articles on politics, philosophy, and critical theory in the tradition of the Frankfurt School, with a particular focus on contemporary political, social, and cultural issues. [1] [2] [3] [4]
While the topics and historical periods it covers are diverse, the journal is known as a long-standing, highly regarded critical theory driven venue for interpretive scholarship, especially but not exclusively in literature and textual criticism.
Critical psychology is a perspective on psychology that draws extensively on critical theory. Critical psychology challenges the assumptions, theories and methods of mainstream psychology and attempts to apply psychological understandings in different ways. The field of critical psychology does not fall under a monolithic category ...
One of the core texts of critical theory, Dialectic of Enlightenment explores the socio-psychological status quo that had been responsible for what the Frankfurt School considered the failure of the Enlightenment. They argue that its failure culminated in the rise of Fascism, Stalinism, the culture industry and mass consumer capitalism.
Critical historiography approaches the history of art, literature or architecture from a critical theory perspective. Critical historiography is used by various scholars in recent decades to emphasize the ambiguous relationship between the past and the writing of history. Specifically, it is used as a method by which one understands the past ...