Critical Theory

Explanations > Critical Theory

This section goes deep into sources of identity, including elements of philosophy. It was done as a part of revision for a university course.

• What is Critical Theory: A whole bag of stuff that makes you think.
• Critical theory concepts: Just some of the things in the bag.
• Theorists, including:
  • Louis Althusser: ISA and interpelllation.

  • Emile Benveniste: Language and psychoanalysis.

  • Ferdinand de Saussure: Linguistics and semiotics.

  • Jaques Derrida: Deconstruction and différance.

  • Michel Foucault: Genealogy, institutions, identity
• Schools of thought, including:
  • Constructionism: We build our world internally.
  • Ethnicity: And the full panoply of variation.
  • Feminism: Challenging the source of female identity.
  • Postmodernism: Holistic, anti-deconstructionist viewpoint.
  • Post-structuralism: Structuralism is seen as too simplistic.
  • Postmodernism: Things are not as simple as they seem.
  • Semiotics: The study of signs.
  • Structuralism: A thing is the sum of its parts and their relationships.

See also

Social Research, Identity, Sociology, Psychoanalysis

 

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