found: Work cat.: Kiss, G. Paradigmawechsel in der Kritischen Theorie, 1987.
found: Peng. dict. soc.
found: Soc. encyc.
found: Wörterbuch der Soziologie.
found: Dictionary of sociology, 1998:(critical theory; term now describes strand of Marxism that has drawn on systems theory, psychoanalysis, other theories: a form of rationalism; proponents sometimes refer to it as "negative philosophy; theory/social theory (two terms listed together as essentially synonyms in sociology))
found: Recognition, work, politics : themes and dialogues in French critical theory, 2007:CIP galley (the essays in this volume share the goal of developing critical, normative arguments in relation to social theory)
found: Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy, viewed online Nov. 12, 2020(Critical TheoryFirst published Tue Mar 8, 2005Critical Theory has a narrow and a broad meaning in philosophy and in the history of the social sciences. "Critical Theory" in the narrow sense designates several generations of German philosophers and social theorists in the Western European Marxist tradition known as the Frankfurt School. 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 from slavery", acts as a "liberating ... influence", and works "to create a world which satisfies the needs and powers" of human beings. Because such theories aim to explain and transform all the circumstances that enslave human beings, many "critical theories" in the broader sense have been developed. They have emerged in connection with the many social movements that identify varied dimensions of the domination of human beings in modern societies. In both the broad and the narrow senses, however, a critical theory provides the descriptive and normative bases for social inquiry aimed at decreasing domination and increasing freedom in all their forms)
notfound: Encyc. phil.;Fleming. Vocab. phil.;Flew. Dict. phil.;Runes. Dict. phil.