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
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
Mythologies
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
Simulacra and Simulation
Orientalism
Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
The Culture Industry
TWAS The Year 2020 by Karl WigginsThe State and Revolution by Vladimir LeninImperialism by Vladimir LeninSocialism by Friedrich EngelsThe Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
Marx and marxism
68 books — 11 voters

Rock | Water | Life by Lesley GreenFundamentals of Ecology by Eugene P. OdumBecoming Rooted by Randy WoodleyEntangled Life by Merlin SheldrakeThe Ecology Book by D.K. Publishing
Ecology Nonfiction
15 books — 4 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

A presence-based relationship with core characteristics like openness and receptivity where the therapist strives for an attitude of un-knowing cannot manifest where both client and therapist are pre-determined in their identities and their relationship is essentially seen as oppressive from the outset.
Dr Val Thomas, Cynical Therapies: Perspectives on the Antitherapeutic Nature of Critical Social Justice

Theodor W. Adorno
Freud made the discovery- quite genuinely, simply through working on his own material- that the more deeply one explores the phenomena of human individuation, the more unreservedly one grasps the individual as a self-contained and dynamic entity, the closer one draws to that in the individual which is really no longer individual.
Theodor Adorno, Introduction to Sociology

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