Social criticism
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Social criticism analyzises (problematic) social structures and aims at practical solutions by specific measures, radical reform or even revolutionary change.
Classical works
- Étienne de La Boétie: Discourse on Voluntary Servitude (circa 1560)
- Thomas Jefferson: A Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774)
- Immanuel Kant: "On the question, what is enlightenment?" (1784)
- Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, (1792)
- Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, (1859)
- Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto (1848)
- Karl Marx, Capital (1867)
- Mikhail Bakunin, Statism and Anarchy (1873)
- Walter Benjamin: Critique of Violence (1921)
- Georg Lukács: History and Class Consciousness (1923)
- Virginia Woolf: A Room of One's Own (1929)
- Sigmund Freud: Civilization and Its Discontents (1930)
- A. J. Cronin: The Stars Look Down (1935)
- A. J. Cronin: The Citadel (1937)
- Henry Miller: The Air-Conditioned Nightmare (1945)
- Max Horkheimer/Theodor W. Adorno: Dialectic of Enlightenment (1947)
- Simone de Beauvoir: The Second Sex (1949)
- Aimé Césaire, Discourse on colonialism (1950)
- Frantz Fanon: The Wretched of the Earth (1961)
- Jane Jacobs: The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961)
- Rachel Carson: Silent Spring (1962)
- Herbert Marcuse: One-Dimensional Man (1964)
- Guy Debord: The Society of the Spectacle (1967)
- Harry Braverman: Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century (1974)
- Michel Foucault: Discipline and Punish (1975)
- Cornelius Castoriadis: The Imaginary Institution of Society (1975)
- Joseph Weizenbaum: Computer Power and Human Reason (1976)
- Howard Zinn: A People's History of the United States (1980)
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