![]() ![]() ![]() We are interested in long-form or in-depth submissions and responses, so please keep this in mind when you post so as to maintain high quality content. This subreddit is intended to be a massive theory HUB, much like /r/ArtTheory, /r/FilmTheory, /r/FeministTheory, and /r/EconomicTheory for all things pertaining to criticism, including and especially social scientific and literary theories. ![]() 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.Īs 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." ![]()
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