The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to critical theory:
Essence of critical theory
Critical theorists – Works in critical theory – Dialectical method –
Concepts Aesthetics Ideology Politics History
Historicity
Humanism Technology Law Wages Anthropology
Branches of critical theory Social science – Anthropology –
Political theory –
Aesthetics –
Modernism –
Post-modernism –
Realism –
Actor–network theory
Commonly used terms Articulation (sociology) Assemblage (philosophy) Blackboxing
African-American studies
Henry Louis Gates Jr. – Frantz Fanon –
Gender studies
Lauren Berlant – Judith Butler – Raewyn Connell – Susan McClary – Laura Mulvey –
Marxist theory
Commonly used terms
Postcolonialism
Chinua Achebe – "An Image of Africa" – Frantz Fanon – "The Wretched of the Earth" – Homi Bhabha – Double consciousness –
Structuralism
Roland Barthes – Ferdinand de Saussure – Claude Lévi-Strauss – Louis Althusser –
Post-structuralism
Roland Barthes – Michel Foucault – Julia Kristeva – Bruno Latour –
Commonly used terms Critical apparatus Event (philosophy) Genealogy (philosophy) Heterotopia (space)
Deconstruction
Commonly used terms Bricolage
Postmodern philosophy
Jean-François Lyotard – Gilles Deleuze – Félix Guattari – Ernesto Laclau – Claude Lefort – A Cyborg Manifesto –
Reconstructivism
Paulo Freire – John Dewey –
Psychoanalytic theory
Commonly used terms
Schizoanalytic theory
Félix Guattari – Gilles Deleuze – Deleuze and Guattari –
Commonly used terms Assemblage (philosophy) Body without organs Rhizome (philosophy)
Queer theory
Judith Butler – Heteronormativity – Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick – Gloria E. Anzaldúa – New Queer Cinema – Queer pedagogy –
Semiotics
Roland Barthes – Julia Kristeva – Charles Sanders Peirce – Ferdinand de Saussure –
Commonly used terms Semiotic square
Literary theory
Mikhail Bakhtin Mary Louise Pratt – René Girard –
Commonly used terms Carnivalesque Chronotope Dialogic Narratology Heteroglossia
Theories of identity Private sphere – certain sector of societal life in which an individual enjoys a degree of authority, unhampered by interventions from governmental or other institutions. Examples of the private sphere are family and home. The complement or opposite of public sphere. Public sphere – area in social life where individuals can come together to freely discuss and identify societal problems, and through that discussion influence political action. It is "a discursive space in which individuals and groups congregate to discuss matters of mutual interest and, where possible, to reach a common judgment". Creolization
Major works
Bloch, Ernst (1938–47). The Principle of Hope Fromm, Erich (1941). The Fear of Freedom (UK)/Escape from Freedom (US) Horkheimer, Max; Adorno, Theodor W. (1944–47). Dialectic of Enlightenment Barthes, Roland (1957). Mythologies Habermas, Jürgen (1962). The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere Marcuse, Herbert (1964). One-Dimensional Man Adorno, Theodor W. (1966). Negative Dialectics Derrida, Jacques (1967). Of Grammatology Derrida, Jacques (1967). Writing and Difference Habermas, Jürgen (1981). The Theory of Communicative Action
Major theorists
References
External links
Critical Theory, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy "Theory: Death is Not the End", n+1 magazine's short history of academic critical theory. Winter 2005. Critical Legal Thinking: A critical legal studies website which uses critical theory in an analysis of law and politics. L. Corchia, Jürgen Habermas. A Bibliography: works and studies (1952-2010), Pisa, Edizioni Il Campano – Arnus University Books, 2010, 344 pp.