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
One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
The Society of the Spectacle
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
Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
The Culture Industry
CSJ is fundamentally incompatible with the enlightenment values and scientific worldview of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT).
Dr Val Thomas, Cynical Therapies: Perspectives on the Antitherapeutic Nature of Critical Social Justice

We need to stop talking about "factory farming." The problem is violence against animals. People will continue eating industrialized meat as long as they believe the myth that there is a "humane" alternative: "humane killing" discourse serves to legitimate the whole meat system. ...more
John Sanbonmatsu

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