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A comprehensive encyclopedia of critical theory. Navigate connections between thinkers, schools of thought, and the concepts that illuminate power, culture, and society.
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Begin with these foundational concepts that underpin much of critical theory. Each connects to a web of related ideas and thinkers.
Alienation
Estrangement, Objectification, and the Loss of Human Essence Under Capitalism
Dialectics
Contradiction, Negation, and the Method of Critical Thought
Hegemony
Cultural Dominance and Consent in Critical Theory
Ideology
False Consciousness, Material Practice, and Systems of Belief
Key Thinkers
The minds behind critical theory's most influential ideas.
Schools of Thought
Movements and traditions that define critical theory.
Recently Added
The latest additions to the encyclopedia.
Accelerationism
Speeding Through Capitalism to What Comes Next—Left and Right Variants
Afro-pessimism
Blackness, Social Death, and the Constitutive Outside of Humanity
Alienation
Estrangement, Objectification, and the Loss of Human Essence Under Capitalism
Biopolitics
Life, Population, and the Politics of Power Over Bodies
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