Concept
Critical theory
Overview
philosophy that sociological understanding's primarily use should be social reform
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Philosophers who discussed Critical theory
- Georg Simmel
- John Rawls
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Immanuel Kant
- Jürgen Habermas
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Karl-Otto Apel
- Max Weber
- Max Horkheimer
- Richard Rorty
- Walter Benjamin
- Franz Rosenzweig
- Axel Honneth
- Jean-François Lyotard
- Ludwig Klages
- Susan Sontag
- Theodor W. Adorno
- Bruno Latour
- Étienne Balibar
- Herbert Marcuse
- Erich Fromm
- Paul Ricœur
- Michel Foucault
- Antonio Gramsci
Related ideas
- Empiricism
- Feminist theory
- Leszek Kołakowski
- History
- Self-reflection
- Fascism
- Political freedom
- Falsifiability
- Productive forces
- Stanford University Press
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Philosophy
- Marxists Internet Archive
- Judith Butler
- Queer theory
- Antipositivism
- Jürgen Habermas
- Language
- Marx's theory of alienation
- Postcolonialism
- Dialectic of Enlightenment
- Logical positivism
- Modernity
- Environmental justice
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of American philosophy.