Critical Theory as Cultural/Social Theory

Social analysis and social theory are not the same thing. In a certain sense, analysis comes before theory (we need to start with the lived conditions of the human world). In another sense, theory comes before analysis (we cannot know what we are looking at without having previously thought about what it means to live in a human world). The range of theoretical approaches in the broad version of critical theory are vast:

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