Concept

Social criticism

Overview

Social criticism is a form of academic or journalistic criticism focusing on social issues in contemporary society, in respect to perceived injustices and power relations in general.

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed Social criticism

• R. H. Tawney
• Xenophanes

Related ideas

• Friedrich Nietzsche
• Pierre Bourdieu
• One-Dimensional Man
• George Orwell
• Immanuel Kant
• Power (social and political)
• Judith Butler
• Guy Debord
• Karl Marx
• Dialectic of Enlightenment
• Sociology
• Music
• BBC
• Max Horkheimer
• Mary Wollstonecraft
• Noam Chomsky
• Xenophanes
• Opera
• Walter Benjamin
• Frankfurt School
• Plato
• Nineteen Eighty-Four
• Psychoanalysis
• Revolution

Place in the tradition

Part of Xenophanes.

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