Categories: Critical theory | Topic lists These should be the most basic topics in the field--topics about which wed like to have articles soon. ... In the humanities and social sciences, critical theory is a general term for new theoretical developments (roughly since the 1960s) in a variety of fields, informed by structuralism, post-structuralism, deconstruction, Marxist theory, and several other areas of thought. ... Cultural studies combines sociology, literary theory, film/video studies, and cultural anthropology to study cultural phenomena in industrial societies. ... Literary theory is the theory (or the philosophy) of the interpretation of literature and literary criticism. ... Theodor Adorno Louis Althusser Mikhail Bakhtin Roland Barthes Walter Benjamin Lauren Berlant Homi Bhabha Jean Baudrillard Susan Bordo Pierre Bourdieu Stephen Bronner Judith Butler Teresa de Lauretis Gilles Deleuze Jacques Derrida Terry Eagleton Mikhail Epstein Franz Fanon Michel Foucault Félix Guattari Jürgen Habermas Max Horkheimer Julia Kristeva Jacques... This is a list of important and seminal works in the field of critical theory. ... Gender studies is a theoretical work in the social sciences or humanities that focuses on issues of sex and gender in language and society, and often addresses related issues including racial and ethnic oppression, postcolonial societies, and globalization. ... Lauren Berlant is Professor of English at the University of Chicago. ... Judith Butler Judith Butler (b. ... Susan McClary is a musicologist considered to be a significant figure in the New Musicology. She is noted for her work combining musicology and feminism. ... Constructions of Subjectivity in Schuberts Music was originally a presentation in which musicologist Susan McClary set about to discuss how Franz Schuberts music may have been affected by his sexuality. ... Laura Mulvey (born August 15, 1941) is a British feminist film theorist. ... Marxism is the political practice and social theory based on the works of Karl Marx, a 19th century German philosopher, economist, journalist, and revolutionary, along with Friedrich Engels. ... The Frankfurt School is a school of neo-Marxist social theory, social research, and philosophy. ... Max Horkheimer (front left), Theodor Adorno (front right), and Jürgen Habermas in the background, right, in 1965 at Heidelberg Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund Adorno (September 11, 1903 – August 6, 1969) was a German sociologist, philosopher, musicologist and composer. ... Herbert Marcuse Herbert Marcuse (July 19, 1898 – July 29, 1979) was a prominent German-American philosopher and sociologist of Jewish descent, member of the Frankfurt School. ... Benjamin, in 1938. ... Habermas speaking with Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, 2004 Jürgen Habermas (born June 18, 1929 in Düsseldorf, Germany) is a philosopher and social theorist in the tradition of critical theory. ... Max Horkheimer (front left), Theodor Adorno (front right), and Jürgen Habermas in the background, right, in 1965 at Heidelberg Max Horkheimer (February 14, 1895 - July 7, 1973) was a German philosopher and sociologist, known especially as the founder and guiding thinker of the Frankfurt School of critical theory. ... Friedrich Pollock (* May 22, 1894 in Freiburg im Breisgau, † 1970 Montagnola, Tessin) was a German social scientist and philosopher. ... Antonio Gramsci Antonio Gramsci (January 23, 1891 – April 27, 1937) was an Italian writer and a politician, a leader and theorist of Socialism, Communism and anti-Fascism. ... Georg Lukács (April 13, 1885 - June 4, 1971) was a Hegelian and Marxist philosopher and literary critic. ... Louis Althusser (October 19, 1918 - October 23, 1990) was a Marxist philosopher. ... Étienne Balibar is a French Marxist philosopher, who first rose to prominence as one of Louis Althussers pupils at the École Normale Supérieure. ... Fredric Jameson (b. ... Antonio Negri (born 1933 in Padua) is an Italian moral and political philosopher. ... Michael Hardt is an American literary theorist based at Duke University. ... Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin (November 17, 1895 (new style)-1975) wrote influential works in literary theory and literary criticism. ... Post-colonialism (also known as post-colonial theory, or post-oriental theory) refers to a set of theories in continental philosophy and literature that grapple with the legacy of 19th century British and French colonial rule. ... This page is about the critical theorist, Homi K. Bhabha. ... Frantz Fanon (1925 - December 6, 1961) was perhaps the preeminent thinker of the 20th century on the issue of decolonization and the psychopathology of colonization. ... Dual consciousness is a concept developed by Franz Fanon in his book Black Skins, White Masks. ... Edward Wadie Said (إدوارد سعيد) (November 1, 1935 – September 24, 2003) was a well-known literary theorist, critic and outspoken Palestinian activist. ... Orientalism is the study of Near and Far Eastern societies and cultures by Westerners. ... This article needs a complete rewrite for the reasons listed on the talk page. ... Geoffrey Bennington is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of French and Professor of Comparative Literature, Emory University, as well as a member of the International College of Philosophy. ... Hélène Cixous, (born June 5, 1937), is a French feminist writer, poet, playwright, philosopher and literary critic. ... Jacques Derrida Jacques Derrida (July 15, 1930 – October 8, 2004) was an Algerian-born French literary critic and philosopher of Jewish descent, considered the first to develop deconstruction after it emerged in the work of Martin Heidegger. ... Werner Hamacher is currently a Professor in the Institut für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, at the University of Frankfurt and was previously Professor of German and the Humanities at The Johns Hopkins University. ... Martin Heidegger Martin Heidegger (September 26, 1889 – May 26, 1976) was a German philosopher. ... Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe (born 1940) is a contemporary French philosopher, literary critic, and translator. ... Jean-François Lyotard (August 10, 1924-April 21, 1998) was a French philosopher and literary theorist. ... Paul de Man (December 6, 1919-December 21, 1983) was a deconstructive literary critic and theorist. ... J. Hillis Miller is an American deconstructive literary critic. ... Jean-Luc Nancy (born 26 July 1940) is a French philosopher. ... Christopher Norris is Distinguished Research Professor in Philosophy at Cardiff University. ... Avital Ronell is Professor and Chair of German and Professor of Comparative Literature, New York University, as well as a member of the faculty of the European Graduate School. ... Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, (born February 24, 1942), is a postcolonial literary critic and theorist of Indian extraction. ... Postmodernism is a term applied to a wide-ranging set of developments in critical theory, philosophy, architecture, art, literature, and culture, which are generally characterized as either emerging from, in reaction to, or superseding, modernism. ... Post-structuralism is a term used in an English-language context to designate some French-language scholarship and Anglo-American derivatives that washed ashore as the tide of structuralism receded. ... Roland Barthes (November 12, 1915 – March 25, 1980) was a French literary critic, literary and social theorist, philosopher and semiotician. ... Michel Foucault Michel Foucault (October 15, 1926 – June 26, 1984) was a French philosopher and held a chair at the Collège de France, a chair to which he gave the title The History of Systems of Thought. His writings have had an enormous impact on other scholarly work: Foucaults... Julia Kristeva is a famous philosopher, psychoanalyst, feminist, and, most recently, novelist. ... Bruno Latour (born 1947, Beaune, France) is a French sociologist of science best known for his books We Have Never Been Modern, Laboratory Life, and Science in Action, describing the process of scientific research from the perspective of social construction based on field observations of working scientists. ... Gilles Deleuze (January 18, 1925 - November 4, 1995) was a major French philosopher of the late 20th century. ... Pierre-Félix Guattari (1930 - 1992) was a French pioneer of institutional psychotherapy, as well as the founder of both Schizoanalysis and the science of Ecosophy. ... Ernesto Laclau is a political theorist often described as post-Marxist. ... Cyborg theory was created by Donna Haraway in order to critique traditional notions of feminism. ... Psychoanalytic theory is a general term for approaches to psychoanalysis which attempt to provide a conceptual framework more or less independent of clinical practise rather than based on empirical analysis of clinical cases. ... Pierre-Félix Guattari (1930 - 1992) was a French pioneer of institutional psychotherapy, as well as the founder of both Schizoanalysis and the science of Ecosophy. ... Schizoanalysis (first introduced in 1972 in Deleuze and Guattaris Anti-Oedipus) can be represented by four circular components that bud and form rhizomes: The generative component: the study of concrete mixed semiotics; their mixtures and variations. ... Ecosophy, also ecophilosophy, is a neologism made by contracting the phrase ecological philosophy. ... Luce Irigaray (born 1930) is a French feminist and psychoanalytic & cultural theorist. ... Teresa de Lauretis is an Italian born author and Professor of the History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. ... Jacques Lacan Jacques Lacan (April 13, 1901 – September 9, 1981) was an influential French psychoanalyst as well as a structuralist who based many of his theories on the work of Sigmund Freud as well as on Ferdinand de Saussures theories on language. ... Julia Kristeva is a famous philosopher, psychoanalyst, feminist, and, most recently, novelist. ... Slavoj Žižek. ... Queer theory is a theory about sex and gender within the larger field of Queer studies. ... Judith Butler Judith Butler (b. ... Heteronormativity is a term used in the discussion of gender and society, mostly, but not exclusively within the field of critical theory. ... Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (b. ... Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa (1942-2004) was a Chicana lesbian feminist writer and activist. ... Semiotics (also spelled Semeiotics) is the study of signs and sign systems. ... Roland Barthes (November 12, 1915 – March 25, 1980) was a French literary critic, literary and social theorist, philosopher and semiotician. ... Julia Kristeva is a famous philosopher, psychoanalyst, feminist, and, most recently, novelist. ... Structuralism is an approach that grew to become one of the most widely used methods of analyzing language, culture, philosophy of mathematics, and society in the second half of the 20th century. ... Roland Barthes (November 12, 1915 – March 25, 1980) was a French literary critic, literary and social theorist, philosopher and semiotician. ... Ferdinand de Saussure (November 26, 1857 - February 22, 1913) was a Swiss linguist. ... Claude Lévi-Strauss (born November 28, 1908) is a French anthropologist who became one of the twentieth centurys greatest intellectuals by developing structuralism as a method of understanding human society and culture Biography Claude Lévi-Strauss was born in Brussels and studied law and philosophy at the Sorbonne in... Louis Althusser (October 19, 1918 - October 23, 1990) was a Marxist philosopher. ... The private sphere is the complement or opposite of the public sphere. ... A concept in continental philosophy and critical theory, the public sphere contrasts with the private sphere, and is the part of life in which one is interacting with others and with society at large. ...