CRITICAL THEORY ON THE WEB – SELECTED LINKS

These resources have been compiled by Dr. Malinda S. Smith, Department of Political Science, University of Alberta. This site is still under construction. Please feel free to make suggestions, and do continue to check back.

 

Critical Theorists

Georg Wilhelm Hegel (1770-1831)

• Hegel Reference Archives (Andy Blunden)
• http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/index.htm
• Hegel - Critical Theory (Bedford/St. Martin’s)
• http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/litlinks/critical/hegel.htm

• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (Stanford)
• http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hegel/

 

Karl Marx (1818-1883)

• Marxists Internet Archives (Online Texts)
• http://www.marxists.org/
• Marx Page (Rick Kuhn, National University Australia)
• http://www.anu.edu.au/polsci/marx/marx.html

 

Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979)

• Herbert Marcuse Official Homepage:
• http://www.marcuse.org/herbert/
• Herbert Archives (Christian Fuchs):
• http://cartoon.iguw.tuwien.ac.at/christian/marcuse/welcome.html
• Herbert Marcuse (Wikipedia):
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Marcuse
• Herbert Marcuse (Illuminations):
• http://www.uta.edu/huma/illuminations/marc.htm
• Herbert Marcuse Bibliography (Douglas Kellner):
• http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/kellner/Illumina%20Folder/kell12.htm
• Herbert Marcuse on the Web:
• http://herbertmarcuse.com/index2.htm

 

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1849)

• Friedrich Nietzsche Reference Archive (Marxist.org):
• http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/nietzsche/index.htm
• French Nietzsches (Duncan Large, 1997)
• http://www.swan.ac.uk/german/large/frennied.htm

• Friedrich Nietzsche Society Home Pages
• http://www.fns.org.uk/index.htm

• Online Texts (Friedrich Nietzsche Society)
• http://www.swan.ac.uk/german/fns/fnslink.htm#NOnlineEng

 

Theodor Adorno (1903-1969)

• Theodor Adorno Internet Archive (Marxists.org) http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/adorno/index.htm
• Adorno (Theory.org):
• http://www.theory.org.uk/ctr-ador.htm
• Adorno (Martin Ryder’s Postmodern Thought Links)
• http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/postmodern.html#adorno

• Theodor W. Adorno (Stanford)
• http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/adorno/

 

Raya Dunayevskaya Archives (1910-1987)

• Raya Dunayevskaya Archives (Marxist.org)
• http://www.marxists.org/archive/dunayevskaya/index.htm
• “Who Is Raya Dunayevskaya?” (Internet Horizons):
• http://www.newsandletters.org/Raya_Dunayevskaya.htm
• Raya Dunayevskaya Writing (Amber Goslee):
• http://www.pipeline.com/~rgibson/Dunayevskaya.html
• Raya Dunayevskaya’s “Notes on Hegel’s Science of Logic” (1961)
• http://listserv.cddc.vt.edu/marxists/www.marxists.org/archive/dunayevskaya/works/newslet/

 

Louis Althusser (1918-1990)

• Louis Althusser Internet Archives (Marxist.org)
• http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/althusser/

• Althusser Links (PopCultures.Com)
• http://www.popcultures.com/theorist.htm

• Louis Althussers (EpistemeLinks.com):
• http://www.epistemelinks.com/Main/Philosophers.aspx?PhilCode=Alth
• Louis Althusser (Wikipedia):
• http://www.iridis.com/glivar/Louis_Althusser
• Louis Althusser Information (Search Spaniel):
• http://www.searchspaniel.com/index.php/Louis_Althusser
• Louis Althusser and Etienne Balibar: http://myhome.naver.com/skreds/althusser/althusser_contrad_overdeter_eng.htm

 

Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937)

• Antonio Gramsci Internet Archives:
• http://www.marxists.org/archive/gramsci/index.htm
• Antonio Gramsci (Wikipedia):
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Gramsci
• Resources on Antonio Gramsci (Dean Savage and Jesse Reichler):
• http://www.soc.qc.edu/gramsci/
• International Gramsci Society (Marcus Green and Christian Dupont):
• http://www.italnet.nd.edu/gramsci/
• Gramsci Links Archives (Marcus Green):
• http://www.victoryiscertain.com/gramsci/
• Audio: Joseph A. Buttigieg, “Power, Consent and Gramsci”:
• http://www.italnet.nd.edu/gramsci/audio-video/index.html
• Film: “New York and the Mystery of Naples: A Journey through Gramsci’s World”: 
• View Online at: http://www.italnet.nd.edu/gramsci/audio-video/index.html

 

Max Horkheimer (1895-1973)

• Max Horkheimer Internet Archives:
• http://www.marxists.org/archive/gramsci/index.htm
• Max Horkheimer (Fact-Index.com):
• http://www.fact-index.com/m/ma/max_horkheimer.html
• Max Horkheimer (Wikipedia):
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Horkheimer
• Max Horkheimer Life and Works (Jochen Stollberg):
• http://www.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/archive/ehorkheimervita.htm
• Max Horkheimer (Literary Encyclopedia):
• http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=2208
• Max Horkheimer (Iridis):
• http://www.iridis.com/glivar/Max_Horkheimer

 

Michel Foucault (1926-1984)

• Audio Lectures by Michel Foucault (Berkeley): http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/audiofiles.html#foucault

• Michel Foucault: The Culture of the Self Lectures at Berkeley (1983)

           April 12, 1983: Berkeley Language Center - Speech Archive SA 1456 

           Introduction and Program

           http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/VideoTest/Foucault-cult1.ram

          Michel Foucault, April 19, 1983: Berkeley Language Center - Speech Archive SA 1462

          1. Discussion / Program 1

          http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/VideoTest/Foucault-cult2.ram

         Michel Foucault, April 19, 1983: Berkeley Language Center - Speech Archive SA 1462

         2. Discussion / Program 2

         http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/VideoTest/Foucault-cult3.ram

• Foucault Pages (Ben Attias):
• http://www.csun.edu/~hfspc002/foucault.home.html

• Michel Foucault (Stanford):
• http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/foucault/
• Foucault Archives (Institut Mémoires de l’édition contemporaine):
• http://www.imec-archives.com/
• Michel Foucault Resources (Clare O'Farrell, Queensland):
• http://www.foucault.qut.edu.au/
• Michel Foucault Resources (Patrick Jennings):
• http://www.synaptic.bc.ca/ejournal/foucault.htm
• Michel Foucault (Fact-Index.com):
• http://www.fact-index.com/m/mi/michel_foucault.html
• Foucault Info.com (2002):
• http://www.foucault.info/
• Postmodern Thought Links (Martin Ryder)

          http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/postmodern.html#foucault

• 'Dictionary for the Study of the Works of Michel Foucault'  (Lois Shawver, 1999): http://www.california.com/~rathbone/foucau10.htm

 

Jacques Derrida (1930-2004)

• Jacques Derrida (Video and Audio):
• http://www.hydra.umn.edu/derrida/media.html
• Jacques Derrida (Audio, Theory Radio):
• http://www.hydra.umn.edu/derrida/radio.html
• “The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida”: Program on Religion, Radio National, Australia, (8 August, 1999): http://hydraumn.edu/derrida/media/australia.m3u
•  “Philosophical Forum,” Jacques Derrida in discussion with Geoffrey Bennington at the ICA, (London 29 November 1987) : http://www.hydra.umn.edu/derrida/radio.html or listen
•  “Interjections of Appeal,” Audio of Presentation made during the Artaud centenary, broadcast via internet video conferencing (Sydney, Australia, 4 September 1996)

• Jacques Derrida, “Perhaps or Maybe,” Jacques Derrida in discussion with Alexander Garcia Düttmann at the ICA (London, 8 March 1996):   listen

• Jacques Derrida Interviews, and Discussions about Derrida (Radio France Audio Resources): http://www.radiofrance.fr/chaines/france-culture2/dossiers/2004/derrida/

• Profile of Jacques Derrida (Bedford/ St. Martin’s)
• http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/litlinks/critical/derrida.htm

• Jacques Derrida, Presidential Lectures (Stanford University)
• http://prelectur.stanford.edu/lecturers/derrida/index.html

• Jacques Derrida Bibliography of Publications (Peter Krapp) http://www.hydra.umn.edu/derrida/jdind.html

• Jacques Derrida Bibliography (Eddie Yeghiayan, University of California-Irvine)
• http://sun3.lib.uci.edu/indiv/scctr/Wellek/derrida.html

• Jacques Derrida – University of California Critical Theory Archives
• http://www.hydra.umn.edu/derrida/uci.html
• Jacques Derrida (PopCulture.com):
• http://www.popcultures.com/theorists/derrida.html

• Deconstructionist Theory (Richard Rorty, Cambridge History of Literary Criticism)
• http://prelectur.stanford.edu/lecturers/derrida/rorty.html

• “Interviews with Jacques Derrida” (Stanford): http://prelectur.stanford.edu/lecturers/derrida/interviews.html

 

Jürgen Habermas (June 1929-    )

• Jürgen Habermas Archives (Marxist.org)
• http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/habermas/index.htm
• Jürgen Habermas Links:
• http://www.egs.edu/resources/habermas-links.html
• Jürgen Habermas (Wikipedia):
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%FCrgen_Habermas
• “Who Is Habermas? Why Habermas? ”:
• http://www.csudh.edu/dearhabermas/habermas.htm
• Jürgen Habermas Web Resource (Steve Robinson):
• http://www.msu.edu/user/robins11/habermas/

 

Frankfurt School and Critical Theory Links

Marxist Theory Links

• Marxist Internet Archives (Marxist.org):
• http://www.marxists.org/
• Marxism Page (Rich Kuhn, Australian National University): http://www.anu.edu.au/polsci/marx/marx.html
• Marxist Theory (Fact-Index.com): http://dir.yahoo.com/Social_Science/Political_Science/Political_Theory/Marxism/
• Rethinking Marxism:
• http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~bgabriel/RM/RM_flash.html#RM

• Marxists Theorists and Critics (Yahoo.com): http://dir.yahoo.com/Social_Science/Political_Science/Political_Theory/Marxism/Theorists_and_Critics/

 

Frankfurt School Links

• Frankfurt School Thinkers and Critics (Wikipedia.org): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_School#Major_Frankfurt_school_thinkers_and_scholars
• Frankfurt School (Wikipedia):
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_School
• Postmodern Thought Links (Martin Ryder)
• http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/postmodern.html#frankfurt

 

Critical Theory Links

• Critical and Postmodern Resources for Qualitative Inquiry: http://cbae.nmsu.edu/mgt/handout/boje/pomo/
• Critical Theory (Wikipedia):
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_theory

• Critical Theory Resources (Bruce Janz):
• http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~janzb/crittheory/
• Guide to Literary and Critical Theory (Dino Felluga)
• http://www.sla.purdue.edu/academic/engl/theory/

• Contemporary Philosophy, Critical Theory and Postmodern Thought
• http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/postmodern.html

• Critical Theory Critics
• http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/litlinks/critical/

• Humanities – Critical Theories (Yahoo):
• http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Critical_Theory/
• Illuminations: The Critical Theory Web Site:
• http://www.uta.edu/huma/illuminations/
• Time Line of Major Critical Paradigms:
• http://www.sou.edu/English/IDTC/timeline/uslit.htm
• Critical Theory Links (Illuminations):
• http://www.uta.edu/huma/illuminations/links.htm

 

Feminist Theory Links

• Feminist Theory Links (Penny Welch):
• http://pers-www.wlv.ac.uk/~le1810/theory.htm
• Feminist Theory Resources (Karla Tonella, Iowa):
• http://bailiwick.lib.uiowa.edu/wstudies/theory.html
• Feminist Theory Resources and Readings (WMST-L File Collection): http://research.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/wfiles_femtheory.html
• Feminist Theory Website (Kristin Switala):
• http://www.cddc.vt.edu/feminism/
• Feminism (Fact-Index.com):
• http://www.fact-index.com/f/fe/feminism.html
• French Feminist Theory (Women’s Studies Resource): http://bailiwick.lib.uiowa.edu/wstudies/frenchfem.html
• Feminist Theory:
• http://www.depts.drew.edu/wmst/StudentRes/www_femtheory.htm
• A List of Notable Feminists (Fact-Index.com):
• http://www.fact-index.com/l/li/list_of_notable_feminists.html

• Noema: A Collaborative (Searchable) Bibliography of Women in Philosophy (Noël Hutchings, Indiana University, Southeast)
• http://billyboy.ius.indiana.edu/WomeninPhilosophy/WomeninPhilo.html

• Philosophy and Feminist Theory Site (U of Wisconsin): http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/philos.htm
• Women’s Studies and Feminist Theory (Alan Liu, Voice of the Shuttle): http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2828

 

Postmodern Theorists Links

• Postmodernism (Fact-Index.com):
• http://www.fact-index.com/p/po/postmodernism.html
• “7 Post-structuralists and Postmodern Thinkers” (James Heartfield)
• http://www.heartfield.demon.co.uk/post.htm

• Po-Mo Pages: The Postmodern, Postmodernism, Postmodernity (Martin Irvine)
• http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/irvinem/technoculture/pomo.html

• Postmodern Thought (Martin Ryder):
• http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/postmodern.html
• Postmodernism (Wikipedia):
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernism
• Postmodernism (Alan Liu, Voice of the Shuttle):
• http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2092
• Postmodern Philosophy (Wikipedia):
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodern_philosophy
• Postmodernism (John Hopkins Guide to Literary Criticism): http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/hopkins_guide_to_literary_theory/postmodernism.html

 

Other Critical Theory Links

Critical Theory

“What is Critical Theory?” (University College Chichester)

http://www.ucc.ac.uk/english/html/what_is_critical_theory.html

“What is Critical Theory and Why Study It?” (Bob Noland, University of Wisconsin Eau-Claire)

http://www.uwec.edu/ranowlan/intr_whystudy_crit_thy.htm

“Critical Theory” (Fact Index.com):

http://www.fact-index.com/c/cr/critical_theory_1.html

 

Postmodernism

“What is Postmodernism, and Why is it saying all of these terrible things?” (J.L. Lemke, 1994))

http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/education/jlemke/papers/jsalt.htm

 “What is Postmodernism” (Mary Klages, University of Colorado, 2003)

http://www.colorado.edu/English/ENGL2012Klages/pomo.html

“What is Postmodernism? (Larry J. Solomon, 2003))

http://music.research.home.att.net/postmod.htm

 

Constructivism

 “What is Constructivism?” (Martin Ryder, University of Colorado)

http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/constructivism.html

“What Entails Social Construction?”

http://www.fact-index.com/s/so/social_construction.html

 

Feminism

What Is Feminist Theory? (John Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism): http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/hopkins_guide_to_literary_theory/feminist_theory_and_criticism-_3.html

“What is ‘Feminist Theory’?” (WMST-L, October 1997)
http://research.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/femtheory.html

 

© January 16, 2005 Malinda S. Smith, Department of Political Science, University of Alberta. If you have any suggestions or find broken links, please contact me. Email.