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A critical theory is any approach to humanities and social philosophy that focuses on society and culture to attempt to reveal, critique, and challenge power structures. With roots in sociology and literary criticism, it argues that social problems stem more from social structures and cultural assumptions rather than from individuals. Some hold it to be an ideology, others argue that ideology is the principal obstacle to human liberation. Critical theory finds applications in various fields of study, including psychoanalysis, sociology, history, communication theory, philosophy and feminist theory.Critical Theory (capitalized) is a school of thought practiced by the Frankfurt School theoreticians Herbert Marcuse, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Erich Fromm, and Max Horkheimer on the one hand, and on the other any philosophical approach that seeks to liberate people from all forms of oppression and actively works to create a world in accordance with human needs (usually called "critical theory", without capitalization). Philosophical approaches within this broader definition include feminism, critical race theory, post-structuralism, queer theory and forms of postcolonialism.Horkheimer described a theory as critical insofar as it seeks "to liberate human beings from the circumstances that enslave them". Although a product of modernism, and although many of the progenitors of Critical Theory were skeptical of postmodernism, Critical Theory is one of the major components of both modern and postmodern thought, and is widely applied in the humanities and social sciences today.In addition to its roots in the first-generation Frankfurt School, critical theory has also been influenced by György Lukács and Antonio Gramsci. Additionally, second-generation Frankfurt School scholars have been influential, notably Jürgen Habermas. In Habermas's work, critical theory transcended its theoretical roots in German idealism and progressed closer to American pragmatism. Concern for social "base and superstructure" is one of the remaining Marxist philosophical concepts in much contemporary critical theory.: 5–8 Source: Wikipedia (en)
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Faschismustheorien
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Geschlecht, Familie, Sexualität: Die Entwicklung der Kritischen Theorie aus der Perspektive sozialwissenschaftlicher Geschlechterforschung
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Night-Vision: Illuminating War and Class on the Neo-Colonial Terrain
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Kritische Theorie: Politikbegriffe und Grundprinzipien der Frankfurter Schule
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Kritik der emanzipatorischen Vernunft: Zum Aufklärungsbegriff der kritischen Theorie
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Feminists Read Habermas
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Von Marx bis Horkheimer: Aspekte kritischer Theorie im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert
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Einführung in die kritische Theorie
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Habermas’s Critical Theory of Society
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Kritische Theorie der Gesellschaft: Eine einführende Rekonstruktion von den Anfängen im Horkheimer-Kreis bis Habermas
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Grand Hotel Abgrund: Eine Photobiographie der Kritischen Theorie
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Paradigmawechsel in der Kritischen Theorie: Jürgen Habermas’ intersubjektiver Ansatz
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The Frankfurt School
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Critical Theory
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Kritische Theorie
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The Idea of a Critical Theory: Habermas and the Frankfurt School
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Kritische Theorie, Humanismus, Aufklärung: Philosophische Arbeiten 1969–1979
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The Critical Theory of Jürgen Habermas
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Origin and Significance of the Frankfurt School: A Marxist Perspective
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Intellektuelle Arbeit und kritische Theorie: Eine Untersuchung zur Geschichte der Theorie in der Arbeiterbewegung
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Zur Idee der Kritischen Theorie
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Kritik und Politik
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Der Konservatismus der kritischen Theorie
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Ideen zu einer kritischen Theorie der Gesellschaft
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Utopie und Anarchismus: Zur Kritik der kritischen Theorie Herbert Marcuses
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One-Dimensional Man
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Minima Moralia
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Eclipse of Reason
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Berliner Beiträge zur kritischen Theorie
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Eingriffe
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Sozialforschung als Kritik
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Habermas and the Public Sphere
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