Critical theory

school of neo-Marxist interdisciplinary social theory

interdisciplinary academic field devoted to analysing gender identity and gendered representation

set of 19th- and 20th-century philosophical traditions from mainland Europe

philosophy that sociological understanding's primarily use should be social reform

academic discipline comparing literature across cultures

area in social life

international organization of social revolutionaries

academic discipline studying film's relationship to reality, the arts, viewers & society

Post-Marxism is a perspective in critical social theory which radically reinterprets Marxism, countering its alleged association with economism, historical determinism, anti-humanism, and class reductionism, whilst remaining committed to the construction of socialism. Most notably, post-Marxists are anti-essentialist, rejecting the primacy of class struggle, and instead focus on building radical democracy. Post-Marxism can be considered a synthesis of post-structuralist frameworks and neo-Marxist analysis, in response to the decline of the New Left after the protests of 1968. In a broader sens

Posthumanism or post-humanism (meaning "after humanism" or "beyond humanism") is an idea in continental philosophy and critical theory responding to the presence of anthropocentrism in 21st-century thought.

essay by Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno

concept in critical theory

philosophy of education and social movement

variant of social science that seeks to interpret and change the world

essay by Guy Debord

In literary interpretation, paratext is material that surrounds a published main text (e.g., the story, non-fiction description, poems, etc.) supplied by the authors, editors, printers, and publishers. These added elements form a frame for the main text, and can change the reception of a text or its interpretation by the public. In Gérard Genette's terminology, paratext is a subtype of transtextuality (See the overview on the French Wikipedia page paratexte).

movement in legal thought committed to shaping society based on a vision of human personality devoid of hidden interests and class domination

Logocentrism is a term coined by the German philosopher Ludwig Klages in the early 1900s. It refers to the tradition of Western science and philosophy that regards words and language as a fundamental expression of an external reality. It holds the logos as epistemologically superior and that there is an original, irreducible object which the logos represent. According to logocentrism, the logos is the ideal representation of the Platonic ideal.

Posthuman or post-human is a concept originating in the fields of science fiction, futurology, contemporary art, and philosophy that means a person or entity that exists in a state beyond being human. The concept aims at addressing a variety of questions, including ethics and justice, language and trans-species communication, social systems, and the intellectual aspirations of interdisciplinarity.

perspective on psychology that draws extensively on critical theory

Critique is a method of disciplined, systematic study of a written or oral discourse. Although critique is frequently understood as fault finding and negative judgment, it can also involve merit recognition, and in the philosophical tradition it also means a methodical practice of doubt. The contemporary sense of critique has been largely influenced by the Enlightenment critique of prejudice and authority, which championed the emancipation and autonomy from religious and political authorities.

Freudo-Marxism is a loose designation for philosophical perspectives informed by both the Marxist philosophy of Karl Marx and the psychoanalytic theory of Sigmund Freud. Its history within continental philosophy began in the 1920s and 1930s and continuing since through critical theory, Lacanian psychoanalysis, and post-structuralism.

colonial populations who are socially, politically, and geographically excluded from the hierarchy of power of an imperial colony and from the metropolitan homeland of an empire

social theory of the creation and reproduction of social systems

Exceptionalism is the perception or belief that a species, country, society, institution, movement, individual, or time period is "exceptional" (i.e., unusual or extraordinary). The term carries the implication, whether or not specified, that the referent is superior in some way.

Verstehen (, ), in the context of German philosophy and social sciences in general, has been used since the late 19th century – in English as in German – with the particular sense of the "interpretive or participatory" examination of social phenomena. The term is closely associated with the work of the German sociologist Max Weber, whose antipositivism established an alternative to prior sociological positivism and economic determinism, rooted in the analysis of social action. In anthropology, Verstehen has come to mean a systematic interpretive process in which an outside observer of a cultur

literary genre, deviating from traditional masculine styles, that examines the relationship between the cultural/psychological inscription of the female body and female difference in language and text

social concept that special rights or advantages are available only to a particular person or group of people

school of Marxist humanism

academic dispute in American philosophy of science which took place in the 1990s

Post-postmodernism is a wide-ranging set of developments in critical theory, philosophy, architecture, art, literature, and culture which are emerging from, and reacting to, postmodernism and its antecedent, modernism. While there are varied definitions of post-postmodernism, common themes include a focus on sincere reconnection with the world that modernism had positioned the observer above, or postmodernism had alienated them from. In contrast to the ironic and unstable belief systems endemic to postmodernism, common themes of post-postmodernism include sincerity, trust, faith, immersion and

thumb|upright=1.2|Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Act I, Scene IV by Henry Fuseli (1789)

In critical theory and deconstruction, phallogocentrism is a neologism coined by Jacques Derrida to refer to the privileging of the masculine (phallus) in the construction of meaning. The term is a blend word of the older terms phallocentrism (focusing on the masculine point of view) and logocentrism (focusing on language in assigning meaning to the world).

ludology of role-playing games (RPGs) where they are studied as a social or artistic phenomenon

pair of related terms or concepts that are opposite in meaning

series of interdisciplinary academic conferences, held since 1933 in Ascona

For the 2022 horror film, see Unhuman (film). Non-human (also spelled nonhuman) is any entity displaying some, but not enough, human characteristics to be considered a human. The term has been used in a variety of contexts and may refer to objects that have been developed with human intelligence, such as robots or vehicles.

Phallocentrism is the ideology that the phallus, or male sexual organ, is the central element in the organization of the social world. Phallocentrism has been analyzed in literary criticism, psychoanalysis and psychology, linguistics, medicine and health care, and philosophy.

philosophical approach associated with Roy Bhaskar

artistic theme

Neo-Gramscianism is a critical theory approach to the study of international relations (IR) and the global political economy (GPE) that explores the interface of ideas, institutions and material capabilities as they shape the specific contours of the state formation. The theory is heavily influenced by the writings of Antonio Gramsci. Neo-Gramscianism analyzes how the particular constellation of social forces, the state and the dominant ideational configuration define and sustain world orders. In this sense, the neo-Gramscian approach breaks the decades-old stalemate between the realist school

school of though in communications

concept in sociology

approach to sociology developed by Georg Simmel and Leopold von Wiese, focusing on forms of social interactions rather than content

method of analyzing culture that identifies contradictions in society’s rules and systems

thumb|Installation by Romuald Hazoumè using gas cans. Hazoumè has stated: "I send back to the West that which belongs to them, that is to say, the [[refuse of consumer society that invades us every day."]]

Reconstructivism is a philosophical theory holding that societies should continually reform themselves in order to establish better governments or social networks. This theory involves recombining or recontextualizing the ideas arrived at by the philosophy of deconstruction, in which an existing system or medium is broken into its smallest meaningful elements and in which these elements are used to build a new system or medium free from the strictures of the original.

a distinct form of antisemitism that has been observed in several countries since the end of the Holocaust

process by which we encounter a culture's or ideology's values and internalize them

Wertkritik (; "value critique" or "critique of value") is a school of Marxian critical theory that emerged in Germany in the 1980s. It sees itself as a continuation of Karl Marx's "esoteric" critique of the value-form, which it argues has been largely abandoned or misunderstood by "traditional" or "workers'-movement Marxism". The school's central figures include Robert Kurz, Roswitha Scholz, Norbert Trenkle, and Ernst Lohoff. Its main theoretical organs have been the journals Krisis and, following a 2004 split, Exit!.

interdisciplinary field and community

journal

school of critical theory founded by Raymond Williams in the 1980s

overview about the critique of ideology

perspective in criminology

type of critical theory that interprets a text by focusing on recurring archetypes in literary works

Posthegemony or post-hegemony is a period or a situation in which hegemony is no longer said to function as the organizing principle of a national or post-national social order, or of the relationships between and amongst nation states within the global order. The concept has different meanings within the fields of political theory, cultural studies, and international relations.

theoretical concept developed by Peruvian sociologist Anibal Quijano

field of scholarship

global justice theory