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
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
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

Minima Moralia by Theodor W. AdornoNegative Dialectics by Theodor W. AdornoCivilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund FreudPostmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism by Fredric JamesonOne-Dimensional Man by Herbert Marcuse
Critical Theory
83 books — 36 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

Darkening Blackness by Norman AjariNarratology by Mieke BalCreation and Anarchy by Giorgio AgambenNarratology by Mieke BalSaint Paul by Alain Badiou
Contemporary Philosophy Reading List
75 books — 2 voters
Extractivisms by Eduardo GudynasLa lección nórdica by José Miguel AhumadaThe Essential Guide to Critical Development Studies by Henry VeltmeyerBuen Vivir and the Challenges to Capitalism in Latin America by Henry Veltmeyer
Critical development studies
4 books — 1 voter

Critical Social Justice (abbreviated in the text as CSJ). CSJ serves as an umbrella term for the set of contemporary Critical Theories and was originally formalised by Robin DiAngelo and Özlem Sensoy. CSJ (or “wokeness” in common parlance) is shorthand for a particularly radical political approach to achieving social justice. Its goal is to uncover the systems of power that are believed to structure society and, by so doing, create the opportunity for a revolutionary transformation into an ideal ...more
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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