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 History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
The Society of the Spectacle
Mythologies
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Simulacra and Simulation
Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
Orientalism
Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
The Culture Industry
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
Blackshirts and Reds by Michael ParentiSocialism by Friedrich EngelsThe Darker Nations by Vijay PrashadCapital by Karl MarxThe Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
The Principled Marxist's Reading List
128 books — 27 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
31 books — 11 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

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

A core tenet of CSJ is that emotional harm is comparable to physical harm; when you cause someone to feel a negative emotion, you are causing harm to that individual. Any level of discomfort is considered harmful and, in some cases, the equivalent of violence.
Dr Val Thomas, Cynical Therapies: Perspectives on the Antitherapeutic Nature of Critical Social Justice

Ben Appel
How will our country survive if its youngest generations are being indoctrinated to hate it? How will it survive if we're taught to hate ourselves? ...more
Ben Appel, Cis White Gay: The Making of a Gender Heretic

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