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| | Illuminations: Kellner |
 | | Adorno, however, was more affirmative toward social theory than Benjamin, complaining in a famous letter that Benjamin's method of "profane illumination," which depended on a juxtaposition of images and collage, was too ascetic and that social theory was needed to mediate cultural criticism (1977: 110ff.). | | | When Marcuse became the guru of the New Left and counterculture and his books Eros and Civilization and One-Dimensional Man were the most influential texts of the period, Erich Fromm bitterly polemicized against his former colleague. | | | The postmodern emphasis on fragments and microtheory and prohibition against macrotheory is perverse in the face of the new global restructuring and configurations just mentioned. |
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http://www.uta.edu/huma/illuminations/kell10.htm
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| | Critical Theory |
| | The validity of social criticism does not merely depend on its being accepted or rejected by those to whom it is addressed. | | | First, it has been long held that only a comprehensive social theory could unify critical social science and thus underwrite a “scientific” basis for criticism that goes beyond the limits of lay knowledge. | | | Faced with a sociological naturalism that relativized claims to truth and justice are necessary for social criticism, the challenge could be answered by detranscendentalizing truth without losing its normativity (Horkheimer 1993, 6; McCarthy, in McCarthy and Hoy 1994, 10). |
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http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/critical-theory
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| | It does not despair in the face of the triumph of technology, nor call for a renewal of the human spirit from a realm beyond society such as religion or nature. | | | In all these cases critics urge us to reject certain technologies, and then ask us to accept the price of preserving traditional or natural ways. | | | Post-modernism attacks all forms of totalizing discourse, including talk of potentiality, in the belief that totalization is the logic of technocracy. |
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http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/faculty/feenberg/CRITSAM2.HTM
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| | Critical Theory Bibliography |
| | Panichas, George A. Literature and Religion: A Revelatory Critical Confluence | | | Criticism, Pleasure, and Truth: A Typology of Critical | | | Parody as Cultural Criticism in The Dead Father |
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http://www.english.iup.edu/mhayward/bib.htm
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| | Critical theory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | These two meanings of critical theory derive from two different intellectual traditions associated with the meaning of criticism and critique, both of which derive ultimately from the Greek word kritikos meaning judgment or discernment and in their present forms go back to the 18th century. | | | Horkheimer wanted to distinguish critical theory as a radical, emancipatory form of Marxian theory both from the model of science put forward by logical positivism and from what he and his colleagues perceived as the covert positivism and authoritarianism of orthodox Marxism and Communism. | | | The two points at which there is the greatest overlap or mutual impingement of the two versions of critical theory are in their interrelated foci on language, symbolism, and communication and in their focus on construction. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_Theory
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| | Guide to Literary and Critical Theory |
| | Showalter, Avalon Foundation Professor of the Humanities at Princeton and former president of the MLA, has an entire chapter in her book dedicated to how best to teach theory in the classroom, a great place to start for anyone looking for ideas. | | | That includes the readings of Spenser's Sonnet 37 and 74, which you can find under the Applications section of Gender and Sex, Marxism, New Historicism, and Psychoanalysis. | | | Click on the image of the book on the left for the amazon.com link. |
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http://www.cla.purdue.edu/academic/engl/theory
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| | Critical theory (Frankfurt School) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | "The Critical Theory of Religion: The Frankfurt School" by Rudolf J. Siebert (ISBN 0-8108-4140-1) | | | The original critical social theorists were Marxists, and there is some evidence that in their choice of the phrase "critical theory of society" they were in part influenced by its sounding less politically controversial than "Marxism". | | | First, they were explicitly linking up with the critical philosophy of Immanuel Kant, where the term critique meant philosophical reflection on the limits of claims made for certain kinds of knowledge and a direct connection between such critique and the emphasis on moral autonomy. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_theory_(Frankfurt_School)
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| | Critical Theory Institute |
| | At the epistemological level, these initiatives raise doubts about the possibility of culture as a discrete object of knowledge, of cultural identity as a stable unity, and of the subject as the basis for aesthetic judgements. | | | Implicit in many of these new discursive communities are new theories of social organization that follow from the communications' protocols of these networks. | | | Critical theory traditionally saw itself in opposition to nationalism and liberalism alike. |
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http://sun3.lib.uci.edu/indiv/scctr/cti.html
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| | ENGL 4F70 Home Page |
| | I will however be maintaining my pages, and will be teaching | | | The 'death of the author' as an instance of theory | | | Cultural Studies and Critical Theory -- database of primary texts, well structured |
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http://www.brocku.ca/english/courses/4F70
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| | UCC English |
| | It teaches us to ‘look awry’ at what we take for granted, as a courtier says to the Queen in Shakespeare& Richard II, | | | Critical Theory is one of the names given to a series of new approaches to the study of culture, literature and thought that developed during the 1960s, primarily in France. | | | Critical Theory is a way of thinking that encourages us to critically approach our assumptions about ourselves and the world. |
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http://www.ucc.ac.uk/english/html/what_is_critical_theory.html
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| | Critical Theory |
| | Note that critical theory differs from post-modern approaches to social theory. | | | That is, he looked on critical theory as an approach that would examine all aspects of social life, not only the larger structural forces but also the individual, consciousness, and the community. | | | Critical theory thus developed an approach which incorporated both the economic and material, and an analysis of individuals and their social psychology, attempting to deal with aspects of what we might refer to as the agency-structure issues today. |
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http://uregina.ca/~gingrich/319m2603.htm
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| | Rage & Hope: Overview of Critical Theory |
| | Critical Theory is a broad tradition based upon the use of the critique as a method of investigation (McCarthy, 1991). | | | It may be that critical theory is the "intellectual return of that repressed hunger for coherence, even if that yearning is expressed, paradoxically, in a discourse feverish with multiplicity, fracture, ingenious dissemination and pun" (Broderick). | | | It is possible that critical theory is the "revival in high culture of the conceptual agility which held primitive cultures in bond" (Broderick, 1997). |
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http://www.perfectfit.org/CT/ct1.html
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| | Centre for Critical Social Theory |
| | In July 2001 the Centre hosted the 2nd International Conference of Social theory Programs. | | | It also has close links with the Social and Political Thought programme at Warwick University and the Warwick Social Theory Centre. | | | As such, critical social theory bridges the usual divides in social thought between explanation and justification, between philosophical and substantive concerns, between 'pure' and 'applied' theory, and between contemporary thinking and the study of earlier thinkers. |
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http://www.sussex.ac.uk/spt/1-4-5.html
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| | Postmodern Thought |
| | Bonner (1993) Of Critical Theory and Its Theorists | | | Habermas (1968) The Idea of the Theory of Knowledge as Social Theory mirror | | | Critical Theory and the Limits of Sociological Positivism (R. George Kirkpatrick) mirror |
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http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/postmodern.html
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| | Critical Theory |
| | Bruce Henricksen and Thais Morgan (eds.), Reorientations: Critical Theories and Pedagogies (1990) | | | "[A]ll theory (whether it calls itself critical or not) has a vantage-point: that it reveals itself is the distinction of critical theory." [Ioan Davies, "Time, Aesthetics, and Critical Theory," in John O'Neill (ed.), On Critical Theory 58-77, 59 (New York: Seabury Press, 1976)] | | | Christopher Norris, Against Relativism: Philosophy of Science, Deconstruction, and Critical Theory (1997) |
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http://www.wvu.edu/~lawfac/jelkins/critproj/theory1a.html
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| | Literary Resources -- Theory (Lynch) |
| | Modern Literary Theory (Kristi Siegel, Mt Mary College) | | | Information on the Centre, along with a few links. | | | Literary Theory and Criticism: A Bibliography (José Angel García Landa, Universidad de Zaragoza) |
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http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/theory.html
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| | Critical Theory Emphasis - About |
| | In addition, CTE seminars are regularly given by world-renowned scholars of critical theory, including Etienne Balibar, who comes to UCI as a visiting professor each year. | | | The CTE and CTI draw on the most prominent scholars of critical theory as measured by our national and international reputation, the prominence of the faculty, and our ability to attract graduate students and post-doctoral scholars from around the world. | | | Students are encouraged to take the workshop during their first or second year of graduate work. |
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http://www.humanities.uci.edu/cte/about/about.html
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| | Illuminations |
| | Additional submissions from graduate students and others are also available, as are links to other websites and related sources. | | | Illuminations: The Critical Theory Website is a WWW research resource for those interested in the Critical Theory project. | | | Firmly based in Frankfurt School thought, this site maintains a collection of articles, excerpts, and chapters from many contemporary writers of and about Critical Theory. |
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http://www.uta.edu/huma/illuminations
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| | Critical Theory |
| | This web site was dedicated on May 18, 1997, for the promotion and application of the Critical Theory. |
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http://www127.pair.com/critical/index2.htm
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| | English 60A: Contemporary Critical Theory |
| | Right now, you'll find some webs devoted to readings of Derrida, and some others devoted to readings undertaken in light of theorists like Derrida. | | | Website for Modern Critical Thought--A very nice site, prepared by Mary Klages of the University of Colorado, this one is distinctive because it includes the instructor's lecture notes. | | | A word from the instructor--Why mess with theory? |
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http://www.lawrence.edu/dept/english/courses/60A
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| | Cyberspace, Virtual Reality, and Critical Theory |
| | Jeffrey Achter, Topoliteracy; or the (Mis)uses of Topology in Literary Criticism and Theory | | | Discussions involving Critical Theory about Self and Identity | | | George P. Landow, Hypertext and Contemporary Critical theory: Barthes, Bakhtin, Derrida, and Foucault |
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http://www.cyberartsweb.org/cpace/theory/theoryov.html
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| | The UC Irvine Critical Theory Resource |
| | In the Spring of every year, a distinguished critic defends his or her critical stance over the course of three lectures. | | | The resource is divided into two subsections, each of which can be browsed and searched: | | | Department of Special Collections and Archives, this resource features many scholarly bibliographies prepared by former Critical Theory and Philosophy Bibliographer Eddie Yeghiayan. |
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http://sun3.lib.uci.edu/~scctr/online.html
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