Kritička teorija društva
Critical theory of society

Author(s): Filip Balunović, Marjan Ivković , Nataša Šmelc
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju
Keywords: Critical theory; humanities; social sciences
Summary/Abstract: Today, there is hardly a more controversial and ambiguous name that refers to a tradition of thought than critical theory. What is critical theory, where are its limits, what is its differentia specifica compared to other directions? All these legitimate questions that we ask in connection with different theoretical directions in the humanities and social sciences take on the character of essential doubts in the case of critical theory. Is — if we go to one extreme — critical social theory any theoretical perspective that criticizes capitalism (or more broadly, the "status quo") from "left" positions (however the latter is understood)? Or, if we go to the opposite extreme, we could conclude that the name deserves only the so-called The "original" Frankfurt School, a group of authors associated with the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt from the 1930s to the 1960s? Any introduction to critical theory inevitably implies a certain amount of "constructivism" on the part of the introducers themselves — they have to significantly construct the very object of their analysis.

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