DISCUSS CRITICAL THEORY
Critical theory is a school of thought that stresses the examination and the critique of society and culture, by applying knowledge from the social sciences and the humanities.
As a term, critical theory has two meanings with different origins and histories: the first originated in sociology and the second originated in literary criticism, whereby it is used and applied as an umbrella term that can describe a theory founded upon critique; thus, the theorist Max Horkheimer described a theory as critical in so far as it seeks "to liberate human beings from the circumstances that enslave them."
Theodor Adorno
Louis Althusser
Alain Badiou
Roland Barthes
Jean Baudrillard
Walter Benjamin
Lauren Berlant
Judith Butler
Helene Cixous
Gilles Deleuze
Jacques Derrida
Frantz Fanon
Michel Foucault
Erich Fromm
Jürgen Habermas
Donna Haraway
Luce Irigaray
Julia Kristeva
Jacques Lacan
Bruno Latour
Herbert Marcuse
Chantal Mouffe
Edward Said
Eve Sedgwick
Gayatri Spivak
Slavoj Zizek