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?
The Society of the Spectacle
One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
Mythologies
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Simulacra and Simulation
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
Orientalism
Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
The Wretched of the Earth
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

The ultimate form of dehumanization is not to reduce humans to the rank of animals, but to elevate animals to the rank of humans; the ultimate form of depersonalization is not to take away the personhood of subjects, but to give personhood to objects; and the ultimate form of demoralization is not to lower morality to the level of caprice, but to raise caprice to the level of morality.
Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski

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