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Dictionary definition: critical theory
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- The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics
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critical theory
Critical theory has been defined as ‘theory which can provide the analytical and ethical foundation needed to uncover the structure of underlying social practices and to reveal the possible distortion of social life embodied in them’ ( Shawn Rosenberg). As a body of theory, it is complex and multidisciplinary, seeking to explain the whole phenomenon of consciousness and to undermine the ways in which existing consciousness perpetuates existing societies. It is particularly associated with the ‘
Frankfurt
School’, founded in 1923. The most influential theorists of the first generation were
Adorno
and Max Horkheimer (1895–1973), though
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