Walter Benjamin

Walter Benjamin

male, deceased (1940)
cultural critic, Essayist, Literary critic, From Berlin, German, Western philosophy…Criticaltheory
Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin was a German Marxist literary critic, essayist, translator, and philosopher. He was at times associated with the F...
Jürgen Habermas

Jürgen Habermas

male, 80 years old
philosopher, advanced capitalistic societies, From Dusseldorf, atheist, capitalism, University of Bonn alumni…Criticaltheory, social theory
Jürgen Habermas is a German philosopher and sociologist in the tradition of critical theory and American pragmatism. He is best known for his work o...
Max Horkheimer

Max Horkheimer

male, deceased (1973)
Jewish, Sociologist, German, Continental philosopher, Marxist theorist, Frankfurt School…Criticaltheory
Max Horkheimer (February 14, 1895 - July 7, 1973) was a Jewish-German philosopher and sociologist, a founder and guiding thinker of the Frankfurt...
Jacques Lacan

Jacques Lacan

male, deceased (1981)
The Seminars of Jacques Lacan, castration complex, Psychoanalysts, ego, Poststructuralism, Postmodern theory…Criticaltheory, Psychoanalytic theory
Jacques-Marie-Émile Lacan (April 13, 1901 - September 9, 1981) was a French psychoanalyst, psychiatrist, and doctor. Lacan’s ‘return to the meani...
Henry Giroux

Henry Giroux

male, 66 years old
Youth empowerment individuals, youth studies, higher education, extremism, Neoliberalism, radical…critical pedagogy, Criticaltheory
Henry Giroux, born September 18 1943, is a US cultural critic. He is one of the founding theorists of critical pedagogy in the United States. He is...

Timothy Luke

male
University of Arizona, English studies, social theory, international political economy, cultural studies, University of Missouri–St. Louis…critical, critical geopolitics, Criticaltheory, political theory
Timothy W. Luke is University Distinguished Professor of Political Science in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences as well as Program...
Theodor W. Adorno

Theodor W. Adorno

male, deceased (1969)
Marxist, Italo-German, Anti-wagnerites, music critic, composer, Sociologist…Criticaltheory
Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund Adorno was a German sociologist, philosopher, pianist, musicologist, and composer. He was a member of the Frankfurt...
Erich Fromm

Erich Fromm

male, deceased (1980)
Marxist, Jewish, From FRANKFURT, philosophy, National Autonomous University of Mexico faculty, Social psychologist…Criticaltheory
Erich Pinchas Fromm (March 23, 1900 - March 18, 1980) was an internationally renowned Jewish-German-American social psychologist, psychoanalyst,...
Martin Jay

Martin Jay

male, 65 years old
Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School, Berkeley, Criticaltheory, UC Berkeley, Guggenheim Fellowship, Social Sciences
Martin Jay (born 1944) is the Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a renowned Intellectual...
Seyla Benhabib

Seyla Benhabib

female, 59 years old
Harvard University, Yale, pluralism, SUNY Stony Brook, State University of New York at Stony Brook, New School for Social Research…Criticaltheory, feminist theory
Seyla Benhabib (born 1950, Istanbul) is a Turkish professor of political science and philosophy at Yale and director of the program in Ethics,...