Cultural & Critical Philosophy: Critical Theory Resources

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”.

 

Central Figures in Critical Theory/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

 

Other Significant Figures in Critical Theory

• Douglas Kellner.