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
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
Mythologies
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 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

Beyond the Gender Binary by Alok Vaid-MenonImperialism by Vladimir LeninThe Drum Major Instinct by Justin RoseA Lover's Discourse by Roland BarthesHow Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney
"yeah, i read theory."
160 books — 5 voters
The Arcades Project by Walter BenjaminWalter Benjamin by Howard EilandThe Complete Correspondence, 1928–1940 by Theodor W. AdornoMusica Ficta by Philippe Lacoue-LabartheSelected Writings, Volume 1 by Walter Benjamin
Walter Benjamin
31 books — 1 voter

How to Read Lacan by Slavoj ŽižekÉcrits by Jacques LacanWhat Lacan Said About Women by Colette SolerA Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis by Bruce FinkEssays on Contemporary Events, 1936-46 by C.G. Jung
Psychoanalysis and Lacan
31 books — 11 voters

A CSJ-driven approach to psychotherapy would exacerbate and worsen problems for individuals seeking psychotherapy. A CSJ-driven approach teaches clients to see their emotional experiences as harmful and blame their emotional experiences on oppression. Clients would learn to be constantly focused on racism, sexism, homophobia, and oppression as the cause of their problems.
Dr Val Thomas, Cynical Therapies: Perspectives on the Antitherapeutic Nature of Critical Social Justice

Gilles Deleuze
The two of us wrote Anti-Oedipus together. Since each of us was several, there was already quite a crowd. Here we have made use of everything that came within range, what was closest as well as farthest away. We have assigned clever pseudonyms to prevent recognition. Why have we kept our own names? Out of habit, purely out of habit. To make ourselves unrecognizable in turn. To render imperceptible, not ourselves, but what makes us act, feel and think. Also because it’s nice to talk like everybod ...more
Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

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