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
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
85 books — 23 voters
Touching Feeling by Eve Kosofsky SedgwickCruel Optimism by Lauren BerlantAn Archive of Feelings by Ann CvetkovichThe Cultural Politics of Emotion by Sara AhmedOrdinary Affects by Kathleen  Stewart
Affect Theory
23 books — 15 voters

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
32 books — 12 voters
Solar Politics by Oxana TimofeevaHuman Robots and Holy Mechanics by David T. KylePost-Comedy by Alfie BownPersons and Things by Roberto EspositoXenofeminism by Helen Hester
Polity's Theory Redux Books
12 books — 2 voters


By creating a false distinction between "good" and "bad" forms of animal exploitation and violence, the animal industry has convinced the public that there is nothing wrong with animal agriculture, per se, only with the way it is practiced. However, it isn't just the animal industry that has a stake in this. Capitalists and consumers, conservatives and liberals, small-scale farmers and corporate industrial farms alike all wish to re-"naturalize" animal husbandry as a permanent, benignant fixture ...more
John Sanbonmatsu

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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