Critical Theory Resources

This page is somewhat narrower in focus than my Continental Philosophy Resources page. It focusses more directly on Critical Theory in the narrow sense. For broader cultural theory or contemporary European philosophy, go to one of these pages: Aesthetics and Visual Culture. Contemporary Culture Resources. Continental Philosophy Resources. Most recent update: 20 September 2006

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General Pages and Links

• A Critical Theory Website.
• Application of the Critical Theory.
• Contemporary Theory Links.
• Critical Theory: Critics.
• Critical Theory (Dance and Technology Zone).
• Critical Theory Institute (UC Irvine).
• Critical Theory Links.
• Critical Theory Terms and Definitions.
• Cultural Studies and Critical Theory (Eserver).
• Illuminations: The Critical Theory Website, with links.
• Introduction to the Frankfurt School.
• Introductory Guide to Critical Theory.
• Frankfurt School (VOS).
• Frankfurt School Media Theory (Daniel Chandler).
• Marxist Media Theory (Daniel Chandler).
• Reading Guides in Social Theory - over 100 very useful guides here.
• Rhetorical and Cultural Studies: Critical Theory.
• Spoon Collective - email discussion lists on critical theory topics.
• Theory.org.uk.

Bibliographies

• Bibliography of Postmodernism and Critical Theory.
• Critical Theory Resource (UC Irvine Library).

Centres & Organizations

• The Centre for Critical Social Theory (University of Sussex).
• Centre for Critical Theory (University of the West of England, Bristol).
• The Centre for Empirically Informed Social Theory (University of Portsmouth).
• The Centre for Social Theory and Technology (Keele University).
• Institut für Sozialforschung an der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt (Institute for Social Research) - with a links page.
• The Pavis Centre (The Open University).
• The Theory, Culture and Society Centre (Nottingham Trent University).
• Theory.org.uk (University of Bournemouth).
• The Social Theory Centre (Warwick University).

Courses

• Contemporary Critical Theory.
• Critical Theory.
• Critical Theory Today.
• Modern Critical Thought.

Documents

• Bronner, Steven. "Of Critical Theory and its Theorists: Introduction".
• Kellner, Douglas. "The Frankfurt School and British Cultural Studies: The Missed Articulation".
• Kellner, Douglas. "Critical Theory and the Crisis of Social Theory".
• Kellner, Douglas. "Critical Theory Today: Illuminating the Classics".
• Quigley, Timothy. "Notes on Surber, "The Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School".

Adorno, Theodor

• Adorno Links.
• Adorno (DMOZ).
• Adorno (Popculture).
• Adorno (Illuminations).
• Adorno (ErraticImpact).
• Adorno Profile.
• Adorno.
• Adorno (Theory.org.uk).
• Adorno, Theodor. From Negative Dialectics.
• Adorno, Theodor. "Culture Industry Reconsidered" also here.
• Adorno, Theodor & Max Horkheimer. "The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception" (from Dialectic of Enlightenment).
• Adorno, Theodor & Max Horkheimer. From Dialectic of Enlightenment.
• Bronner, Steven. "Dialectics at a Standstill: A Methodological Inquiry Into the Philosophy of Theodor W. Adorno".
• Bibliography: T. W. Adorno: A Bibliography of Works in English (W. Barker).
• Harker, Dave. "In Perspective: Theodor Adorno".

Benjamin, Walter

• Benjamin (Popculture).
• Benjamin.
• Benjamin, Walter (DMOZ).
• Benjamin, Walter (ErraticImpact).
• Benjamin Links.
• Benjamin Labyrinth (auf Deutsch).
• Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction".
• Benjamin, "One-Way Street".
• Bronner, Stephen. "Reclaiming the Fragments: On the Messianic Materialism of Walter Benjamin".
• International Walter Benjamin Society.
• Jameson, Fredric. From The Theoretical Hesitation: Benjamin's Sociological Predecessor.
• Rollason, Christopher. "The Passageways of Paris: Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project and Contemporary Cultural Debate in the West".
• Walter Benjamin in the Postmodern (from New Comparison).
• Walter Benjamin Research Syndicate.

Fromm, Erich

• International Erich Fromm Society.

Giddens, Anthony

• Anthony Giddens (Theory.org.uk).
• Giddens' Home Page - with some frequently asked questions.

Habermas, Jurgen

• Bio of Jurgen Habermas (G. Andrew Page).
• Blake, Scott. "Cultural Power and Discursive Effects".
• Habermas (Popculture).
• Habermas.
• Habermas Email List (Spoon Lists).
• Habermas Links.
• Habermas Links.
• Habermas, Jurgen (DMOZ).
• Habermas, Jurgen (ErraticImpact).
• Habermas, Jurgen. From Knowledge and Human Interests.
• Habermas, Jurgen. From Legitimation Crisis.
• Habermas, Jurgen. From Georg Simmel on Philosophy and Culture: Postscript to a Collection of Essays.
• The Importance of Habermas in Making Sense of the World.
• The Jurgen Habermas Web Resource.
• Lambert, TyAnna. Jurgen Habermas: Luddite Dragon or Defender of the Weak? Effects of Intertextuality on Meaning in Jurgen Habermas' Toward a Rational Society.
• MacIsaac. "The Critical Theory of Jurgen Habermas".
• Stephens, Mitchell. "Jurgen Habermas".
• The Unfinished Project of Enlightenment: The Critical Social Theory of Jürgen Habermas (Kenneth MacKendrick).

Honneth, Axel

• Honneth, Axel. "Paradoxes of Capitalist Modernization" The Foundations of a Comprehensive Research Project of the Institute for Social Research.

Horkheimer, Max

• Gur-Ze'ev, Ilan. "Max Horkheimer and Philosophy of Education".
• Horkheimer.
• Horkheimer (ErraticImpact).
• Horkheimer Site - Italian.
• Horkheimer, Max & Theodor Adorno. "The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception" from Dialectic of Enlightenment.
• Horkheimer, Max & Theodor Adorno. Elemente des Antisemitismus. Grenzen der Aufklarung.
• Max Horkheimer biography.

Lowenthal, Leo

Lukács, Georg

• Georg Lukacs Archive.

Marcuse, Herbert

• Herbert Marcuse: A Comprehensive Website.
• Kellner, Douglas. "Herbert Marcuse".
• Marcuse (Popculture).
• Marcuse, Herbert (DMOZ).
• Marcuse, Herbert (ErraticImpact).
• Marcuse (Illuminations).
• Marcuse, Herbert. Reason and Revolution: Hegel's First System, From Philosophy to Social Theory.
• Marcuse, Herbert. One Dimensional Man.
• Marcuse, Herbert. "Aggressiveness in Advanced Industrial Society".

Pollock, Friedrich

• Douglas Kellner.

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