Outline of critical theory
Below is a list of basic topics in critical theory -- topics which will help the beginner become familiar with the field of critical theory. For a comprehensive list, see List of critical theory topics.
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Major concepts, key terms, theories, schools of thought
- Biopower
- Civic society
- Communicative action
- Critical Race Theory
- Cultural industry
- Cultural Studies
- Deconstruction
- Dehumanization
- Disciplinary institutions
- Discourse
- Enlightenment
- Episteme
- Feminism
- Geneology
- Governmentality
- Hermeneutics
- Heterotopia
- Ideology
- Late capitalism
- Logical Positivism
- Negative dialectic
- New Musicology
- Objectification
- Orientalism
- Panopticon
- Parrhesia
- Phenomenology
- Power
- Power-Knowledge
- Post-Colonial Theory
- Post-Modernism
- Post-Structuralism
- Public sphere
- Queer Theory
- Reason
- Semiotics
- Social Constructionalism
- State Racism
- Structuralism
- World Systems Theory
Major theorists
- Michel Foucault
- Herbert Marcuse
- Louis Althusser
- Jean Baudrillard
- Edward Said
- Roland Barthes
- Theodor Adorno
- Jürgen Habermas
See also List of critical theorists.
See also the Frankfurt School.
Major works
One-Dimensional Man, Escape from Freedom, Theory of Communicative Action, Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, Negative Dialectic, Dialectic of Enlightenment, Writing and Difference, Of Grammatology, Mythologies