critical theory

(20th century)

An academic development of Marxism.

Critical theory was developed in Germany and then America in the 1930s by the 'Frankfurt School'.

It stressed cultural and intellectual developments in place of the more traditional Marxist concern with the economy and with class.

Source:
David Miller et al., eds, The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Political Thought (Oxford, 1987)


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