Critical Theory

Critical theory is a school of thought that stresses the reflective assessment and critique of society and culture by applying knowledge from the social sciences and the humanities.

Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
The Society of the Spectacle
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
Mythologies
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Simulacra and Simulation
Orientalism
Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
The Culture Industry
Anatomy of an Epidemic by Robert  WhitakerFrontlash / Backlash by Jeffrey C. AlexanderI Love My Doctor, But... by Lawrence W. GoldThe Birth of the Clinic by Michel FoucaultMad in America by Robert  Whitaker
Critical Psychiatry and Mad Studies
202 books — 54 voters
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey ChaucerSongs of Innocence and of Experience by William BlakeLyrical Ballads by William WordsworthThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence SterneA Companion to the History of Economic Thought by Warren J. Samuels
Reading - Summer 2014
24 books — 2 voters

The Society of the Spectacle by Guy DebordThe Seminar of Jacques Lacan by Jacques LacanMythologies by Roland BarthesThe Sublime Object of Ideology (Phronesis by Slavoj ŽižekThe Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin
r/CriticalTheory Recommended Reading
84 books — 21 voters
Touching Feeling by Eve Kosofsky SedgwickAn Archive of Feelings by Ann CvetkovichCruel Optimism by Lauren BerlantThe Cultural Politics of Emotion by Sara AhmedOrdinary Affects by Kathleen  Stewart
Affect Theory
22 books — 13 voters

Egoists, a Book of Supermen by James HunekerThe Ego and Its Own by Max StirnerMythologies by Roland BarthesViolence by Slavoj ŽižekThe Unique and Its Property by Max Stirner
Spook Busting
41 books — 3 voters

The phone in your pocket has eyes and ears, the search engines know your inner troubles, and the calendar knows your future while personal smart devices track your body’s biological processes
Scott Brodie Forsyth

The Dean insists that we add creationism and crystal theory and spiritualism to the curriculum." ... "We told the Dean that there was no objective evidence for any of that crap. You know what he said?" ... "No. What?" "He said that the alleged objectivity of materialist science was an invention of heterosexual, white males, so we shouldn't use that as a basis for judgement. ...more
Larry Niven; Jerry Pournelle; Mike Flynn, Fallen Angels

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