Critical Theory

Major 20th Century Theorists of Critical Theory/Frankfurt School

• Critical Theory Resource Page

Critical Theory, Reason and Politics

• The "Reality-Based" Community
  
  
• Reason
  • Central Problem: Reason and Action
  • The Frankfurt School and Reason
    
    
• Ideology
  • Ideology
  • The F Scale
  • Evangelicalism
    
    
• Freedom
  • What Would Make You Truly Free?
  • Freedom and What's Keeping Us From It
  • Emancipation

The Frankfurt School

• Roots of the Frankfurt School
  • Institut für Sozialforschung an der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt (Institute for Social Research) - with a links page
• Marxist Media Theory (Daniel Chandler)
• History of the Frankfurt School

Antonio Gramsci

• Grappling with Gramsci
• Gramsci and "Hegemony"

Georg Lukács

• Georg Lukacs Archive

Louis Althusser

• A reading guide - Althusser on Ideology

Theodor Adorno & Max Horkheimer

• Adorno and Horkheimer on Enlightenment
• The Culture Industry
• Adorno, "The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception"
• Adorno and the Culture Industry
• What's Wrong with the Culture Industry?
• Adorno on Music
• Adorno on Charlie Chaplin

Walter Benjamin

• Fragments of the Passagenwerk: Wandering through the Arcades
• The Flaneur

Erich Fromm

Herbert Marcuse

• Marcuse overview
• Marcuse and Freud

Jurgen Habermas

• Habermas, Legitimation Crisis excerpt
• Habermas and Communicative Action I
• Habermas and Communicative Action II
• Habermas overview

Related Figures:

Charles Taylor

• Charles Taylor Resources
• Charles Taylor Site

Anthony Giddens

• Giddens and the Detraditionalization Thesis
• Giddens on Fundamentalism

Sites of Research in the Culture Industry

Disney

• Disney Sites
• Critique of Disney
  • Disney Theme Parks
  • Disney Visitors

McDonalds