Philosophy Humanities Sociology Politics
Hermeneutics Literary Criticism
Critical theory, a philosophical approach that originated from the Frankfurt School, has had a significant impact on sociology. It involves critical examinations of society, culture, and politics by uncovering the underlying social structures, power dynamics, and ideological assumptions that influence human experience. often with emancipatory goals.
A school of thought that responded negatively to structuralism’s insistence on frameworks and structures as access points to “truth.” Poststructuralism, like deconstruction, emphasized the instability of meaning. While structuralism regarded language as a closed system, poststructuralism identified an inevitable gap between signifier and signified. In poststructuralism, the reader and not the writer became paramount: the author’s intended meaning, because it could never be truly known, was less important than the reader’s perceived meaning. Like other postmodern theories that interrogated cultural assumptions, poststructuralists believe in studying both the text and the systems of knowledge that produced that text. Poststructuralism is associated with many French writers and thinkers, namely Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Derrida.
The interdisciplinary study of culture and society. Cultural studies scholars examine cultural practices, media, and texts to understand how they reflect and shape social values, identities, and power dynamics.
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/adorno/
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http://www.neu.inkrit.de/index.php/de/publikationen/hkwm Berliner Institut für kritische Theorie - Historisch-kritisches Wörterbuch des Marxismus (HKWM)
https://www.e-flux.com/journal/76/72759/male-fantasies-the-sequel-s/
https://culturalstudiesnow.blogspot.com/
https://www.critical-theory.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxist_cultural_analysis
Book Series
Intersections: Philosophy and Critical Theory (SUNY Press)
Anastasia Marinopoulou - Critical theory and epistemology: The politics of modern thought and science
Dan Mellamphy, Nandita Biswas Mellamphy (Editors) - The Digital Dionysus: Nietzsche and the Network-Centric Condition
Andrew Bowie - From Romanticism to Critical Theory: The Philosophy of German Literary Theory
Justin Clemens - The Romanticism of Contemporary Theory: Institution, Aesthetics, Nihilism
Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Jean-Luc Nancy - The Literary Absolute: The Theory of Literature in German Romanticism
Nathan Ross - The Philosophy and Politics of Aesthetic Experience: German Romanticism and Critical Theory
Robert Paul Resch - Althusser and the Renewal of Marxist Social Theory