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	Critical theory - Psychology Wiki - a Wikia wiki
		Horkheimer wanted to distinguish critical theory as a radical, emancipatory form of Marxian theory both from the model of science put forward by logical positivism and from what he and his colleagues perceived as the covert positivism and authoritarianism of orthodox Marxism and Communism.
		The second meaning of critical theory is that of theory used in literary criticism – hence "critical theory" -- and in the analysis and understanding of literature and is discussed in greater detail under literary theory.
		Critical theory in literature and the humanities in general does not necessarily involve a normative dimension, whereas critical social theory does, either through criticizing society from some general theory of values, norms, or oughts, or through criticizing it in terms of its own espoused values.
	psychology.wikia.com /wiki/Critical_theory (1479 words)

	Critical theory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		In the humanities and social sciences, critical theory is a general term for new theoretical developments (roughly since the 1960s) in a variety of fields, informed by structuralism, post-structuralism, deconstruction, Marxist theory, and several other areas of thought.
		Its major concerns are questions of identity, both within the private sphere and within the public sphere, and particularly in questions of dissonance between those two identities.
		The second major focus of critical theory is on specific ways that cultural institutions - ranging from media to religion to scientific and academic work - are used to shape identities, dictating what is accepted as true, normal, or acceptable within a culture, offering privilege to some, and marginalizing or denying others.
	www.1-free-software.com /en/wikipedia/c/cr/critical_theory_1.html (561 words)

	Critical theory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The first meaning of the term critical theory was that defined by Max Horkheimer of the Frankfurt School of social science in his 1937 essay Traditional and Critical Theory : critical theory is social theory oriented toward critiquing and changing society as a whole, in contrast to traditional theory oriented only to understanding or explaining it.
		The second meaning of critical theory is that of theory used in literary criticism – hence "critical theory" -- and in the analysis and understanding of literature and is discussed in greater detail under literary theory.
		Critical theory in literature and the humanities in general does not necessarily involve a normative dimension, whereas critical social theory does, either through criticizing society from some general theory of values, norms, or oughts, or through criticizing it in terms of its own espoused values.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Critical_theory (1287 words)

	Critical Theory
		According to these theorists, a “critical” theory may be distinguished from a “traditional” theory according to a specific practical purpose: a theory is critical to the extent that it seeks human emancipation, “to liberate human beings from the circumstances that enslave them” (Horkheimer 1982, 244).
		Critical Theorists attempt to fulfill potentially two desiderata at the same time: first, they want to maintain the normativity of philosophical conceptions such as truth or justice, while at the same time they want to examine the contexts in which they have developed and may best be promoted practically.
		Critical Theorists have always insisted that critical approaches have dual methods and aims: they are both explanatory and normative at the same time, adequate both as empirical descriptions of the social context and as practical proposals for social change.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/critical-theory (18994 words)

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		Major, John Major, John, 1943-, British statesman, b.
		criticism criticism, the interpretation and evaluation of literature and the arts.
		Major, John Major, John, 1469-1550, Scottish theologian and historian.
	www.encyclopedia.com /searchpool.asp?target=List+of+major+critical+theorists (544 words)

	Critical theory -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Others argue that the term as currently used corresponds with (French philosopher and critic; exponent of deconstructionism (born in 1930)) Jacques Derrida's presentation of "Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences" in 1966 at (Click link for more info and facts about Johns Hopkins University) Johns Hopkins University.
		Its major concerns are questions of identity, both within the (Click link for more info and facts about private sphere) private sphere and within the (Click link for more info and facts about public sphere) public sphere, and particularly in questions of (Disagreeable sounds) dissonance between those two identities.
		Major thinkers on this question include (Click link for more info and facts about Lacan) Lacan, (Click link for more info and facts about Louis Althusser) Louis Althusser, and (German philosopher whose views on human existence in a world of objects and on Angst influenced the existential philosophers (1889-1976)) Martin Heidegger.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/cr/critical_theory.htm (620 words)

	D.C. McCarty / THE CHRONOMETRY OF THOUGHT: WITTGENSTEIN AND CRITICAL THINKING
		Yet, if critical thinking be recognized for what it is — not true heir to the family of cognition but one of its parvenu relatives — we cannot allow to critical thinking the inheritance of the tradition of thinking in philosophy.
		The critical libertarian is — in Siegel’s multiply ambiguous phrase — “appropriately moved by reasons,” yet she rejects the prospect that anyone but the thinker herself is final arbiter over her thought.
		With the critical prodigy, one is tempted to the opposite view: the prodigy is at critical thinking a wizard — in just the way that an autistic child can be a marvel at calculation — but no thinker, no cogitator, at all.
	www.ed.uiuc.edu /EPS/PES-Yearbook/93_docs/DCMCCART.HTM (4403 words)

	Arts - Literature - Reviews and Criticism - Theory
		Developer, theorist and hypertext fiction author whose research is in the fields of annotation, spatial hypertext and e-books.
		Overviews of the new criticism and formalism, traditional historicism, new historicism, reader-response criticism, psychoanalytical criticism, feminist literary criticism, structuralist criticism, and Marxist literary criticism.
		Theorist and author who is particularly known for her work on closure in hypertext fictions.
	www.puncat.com /Arts/Literature/Reviews_and_Criticism/Theory (1253 words)

	Intertextuality (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Critical theory is less concerned with justifications for or against heteronormativity and more concerned with how it affects (negatively, in the eyes of many in the field) self-conception and self-expression (especially from stigmatized viewpoints).
		Critics of heteronormativity say that the existence of intersex, gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered people undermines any fundamental assumption that gender is naturally dichotomous.
		Gender theorists argue that gender assignment to intersex individuals is a clear case of heteronormativity, in which a biological reality is actually denied in order to maintain a binary set of sexes and genders.
	dks.thing.net /Intertextuality.html (8498 words)

	List of major critical theorists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		A Dictionary of Postmodern Terms Defines the terms introduced and most commonly used by postmodern authors and critical theorists.
		ht_lit Mailing List Instructions on how to join ht_lit, a low-traffic but valuable list a lot of hypertext theorists are members of.
		ARIAD Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Develops orally-administered drugs which block intracellular signal transduction pathways critical to major diseases such as osteoporosis, allergy/asthma and immune-related disorders.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-List_of_major_critical_theorists.html (311 words)

	webstuff\421crsq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Explain how critical theorists would attack the Cartesian idea that philosophy should begin from premises that are beyond doubt.
		The criticism of instrumental reason draws from a long tradition of polemics in modern philosophy, e.g., Descartes’s emphasis on the primacy of judgment, Kant’s challenge to heteronomy, Hegel’s contextualization of formalism,” Husserl’s rejection of psychologism and positivism, and Heidegger’s rejection of subject/object metaphysics.
		Develop a list of the historical and philosophical issues critical theorists see as bound up with the question of instrumental reason.
	www.msu.edu /course/phl/421/phl421/spring2001/peterson_1/421crsq.html (367 words)

	English Language and Literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Exam students are responsible for a designated list of 50-60 major texts that covers all major areas of British and American literature and all major genres.
		The exam will be limited to a list of major writers or texts selected by the exam student in consultation with a department specialist subject to the approval of the graduate director.
		Major emphasis is placed on exploring the diversity among various feminist approaches.
	www.fordham.edu /gsas/engl/engl.html (1753 words)

	Critical Theory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		argue ID is not a religious belief but a valid scientific theory and that the school district intended only to expose students to views critical of and...
		County, New Jersey, believes a solution such as Leadâ¢R Suite is critical to the...
		whose talk is titled "Politics and the Virtues of Mendacity." Jay is a scholar of European intellectual history, visual culture and critical theory, and the...
	www.wikiverse.org /critical-theory (711 words)

	Harry Potter - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		See List of titles of Harry Potter books in other languages and Harry Potter in translation series.
		List of fictional books within the Harry Potter series
		List of titles of Harry Potter books in other languages
	www.open-encyclopedia.com /WikiProject_Critical_Theory/Current_Topics_oew (2127 words)

	SOCIAL STRATIFICATION
		The criticism of this model is that the ideas overreact by imagining that the supply side is all that need be analyzed to understand income differences.
		A major transition in Marx' thought was his adoption of the notion of 'surplus value' (from 1850's on).
		The next major portion of the paper deals with various empirical aspects of the study, which are neither particularly interesting or relevant in the big picture.
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		In the period of "high modernism," from around 1910 to 1930, the major figures of modernism literature helped radically to redefine what poetry and fiction could be and do: figures like Woolf, Joyce, Eliot, Pound, Stevens, Proust, Mallarme, Kafka, and Rilke are considered the founders of twentieth-century modernism.
		Francois Lyotard (the theorist whose works Sarup describes in his article on postmodernism) equates that stability with the idea of "totality," or a totalized system (think here of Derrida's idea of "totality" as the wholeness or completeness of a system).
		This association between the rejection of postmodernism and conservatism or fundamentalism may explain in part why the postmodern avowal of fragmentation and multiplicity tends to attract liberals and radicals.
	www.colorado.edu /English/ENGL2012Klages/pomo.html (2754 words)

	theorists - OneLook Dictionary Search
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		Phrases that include theorists: conspiracy paranoid theorists, conspiracy theorists, list of critical theorists, list of liberal theorists, list of major critical theorists, more...
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	Lit Crit & Theory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Freud's own relevance to "critical theory" was revived by Jacques Lacan's poststructuralist revision of psychoanalysis, in which the "self" (or ego)--trapped in the Symbolic of language--is forever fraught with a "gap" or incompleteness that is always striving--and failing--to (re-)achieve a wholeness with the original (and "Imaginary") state of unity perceived by the infant.
		The major complaint against poststructuralism's deconstruction of all binaries and hierarchies into a "hole" (or absence or lack) is that it leads to a relativism and "indeterminacy" (de Man) that seems ultimately nihilistic and politically vacuous and paralyzing.
		For instance, the socio-political critic with a Marxist bent might reject as worthless any literary classic--Homer's Iliad, for example--that implicitly accepts the framework of a class-based society--even though Homer was unable to be instructed in the wonders of Marxist dialectic before he wrote his 9th c.
	www.usd.edu /~tgannon/crit.html (4900 words)

	Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		A broad-scope searchable database for information on critical theories and theorists who have influenced historical and contemporary literary theory.
		A comprehensive introduction to critical theory, offering an introduction to theoretical paradigms, main issues, timelines of major critical theories, and overview of the major theorists, and controversies.
		Developed for instructors interested in integrating postmodernism themes into their teaching, this guide gives a general overview of literary theory from the perspective of the writer, reader, and filmmaker, as well as addressing issues of teaching postmodernism in the classroom.
	www.lib.byu.edu /~english/ResearchGuides/theory_links.html (1010 words)

	Literary Resources -- Theory (Lynch)
		Literary Theory and Criticism: A Bibliography (José Angel García Landa, Universidad de Zaragoza)
		Very extensive bibliographies of works by and about major theorists.
		A chronology, bibliography, and list of resources on the influential critic.
	andromeda.rutgers.edu /~jlynch/Lit/theory.html (515 words)

	Template:CriticalTheoryTasks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Here are some open WikiProject Critical Theory tasks:
		Improve article on neo-gramscianism and create new category for this field of critical theory
		Feel free to edit this list or discuss these tasks.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Template:CriticalTheoryTasks (58 words)

	Critical Think
		In the workplace we avoid stagnation and atrophy and are willing to challenge the current paradigms which are uncritically accepted and may have come down in the workplace from a time and thinking which is no longer relevant to our current reality.
		Self consciously to monitor one’s cognitive activities, the elements used in those activities, and the results educed, particularly by applying skills in analysis and evaluation to one’s own inferential judgments with a view toward questions, confirming, validation, or correcting either one’s reasoning or results.
		Criticism or negative discussion regarding ideas is absolutely forbidden.
	www.coping.org /write/percept/critical.htm (2135 words)

	STEVEN BEST & DOUGLAS KELLNER. POSTMODERN THEORY: CRITICAL INTERROGATIONS
		Their critical theory is "multiperspectival" in that it "views society from a multiplicity of perspectives." (p.
		And it must assert that "some critical theories and methods are more appropriate for specific contexts and problems." (p.270) In other words, they seem to say that one should select one theoretical approach for one type or slice of reality and another for a different type or slice.
		They are theorists on a practical mission to rescue the times from the aporias of philosophy and the failures of politics in the decades following May '68.
	webpages.ursinus.edu /rrichter/bestkellner.html (3159 words)

	Electronic Democracy Bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Part One provides a summary description of the major technological concepts that express and support cyberculture, and introduces the question of the social and cultural impact of new technology.
		The authors all make extensive use of critical theorists in their work, with a heavy emphasis on the application of postmodernist and Habermasian theory to online politics.
		John Streck’s article examines the politics of usenet forums and argues that the interactions between individuals and these groups are unlikely to serve as a basis for democratic and participatory discussion.
	www.publicsectorit.ca /publications/e-democr-bibliography.html (2860 words)

	Critical Theory \| Collo.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		A journal of postmodern and critical thought to be shared collegially as a learning text created interdependently with faculty, community, and students on issues of peace and social justice.
		The site is dedicated to the critical appraisal of ideas, inspired by the work of Karl Popper, William W Bartley, F A Hayek and Jacques Barzun.
		The Critical Theory Institute The Critical Theory Institute provides a locus for the conduct and support of collaborative, interdisciplinary research focused on the theoretical underpinnings of such fields as history, literature, philosophy, art and polit
	infosik.com /Humanities/Critical_Theory/24481/Critical_Theory.html (265 words)

	Critical theory - Internet-Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Find critical theory and more at Lycos Search.
		Read about critical theory in the free online encyclopedia and dictionary.
		At eBay you can find practically anything, even critical theory.
	www.internet-encyclopedia.com /ie/c/cr/critical_theory_1.html (705 words)

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		In recent years, techniques for substantially enhancing critical thinking have been developed, but they are not yet being widely adopted.
		When challenged, they resort not to debating the substantive issues but to demonising their critic and mocking his concern for facts.
		He is famous for maintaining that the problem with our culture, going back to the "Gang of Three," is that we have focused too much on critical (vertical, logical) thinking and need to set that aside and do more creative/lateral thinking.
	www.austhink.org /ctblog.htm (7064 words)

	Amazon.com: The Critical Pedagogy Reader: Books: Antonia Darder,Rodolfo D. Torres,Marta Baltodano (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		There is also a short teaching vignette at the beginning of each section that connects the given critical pedagogy theory to a practical classroom situation.
		This chapter attempts to contribute to the search for a theoretical foundation upon which to develop a critical theory of education.
		Critical Pedagogy and Predatory Culture: Oppositional Politics in a Postmodern Era by Peter McLaren on 4 pages
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