List of major critical theorists

See also Critical theory (Frankfurt School)


 * Theodor Adorno
 * Louis Althusser
 * Mikhail Bakhtin
 * Roland Barthes
 * Walter Benjamin
 * Lauren Berlant
 * Homi Bhabha
 * Jean Baudrillard
 * Susan Bordo
 * Pierre Bourdieu
 * Stephen Bronner
 * Judith Butler
 * Helene Cixous
 * Hamid Dabashi
 * Michel de Certeau
 * Teresa de Lauretis
 * Gilles Deleuze
 * Paul De Man
 * Jacques Derrida
 * Terry Eagleton
 * Mikhail Epstein
 * Norman Fairclough
 * Frantz Fanon
 * Michel Foucault
 * Hans-Georg Gadamer
 * Félix Guattari
 * Jürgen Habermas
 * Martin Heidegger
 * Max Horkheimer
 * Thomas S. Kuhn
 * Julia Kristeva
 * Fredric Jameson
 * Henry Jenkins
 * Jacques Lacan
 * Claude Levi-Strauss
 * Leo Löwenthal
 * Herbert Marcuse
 * Karl Marx
 * Oskar Negt
 * Friedrich Pollock
 * Nicos Poulantzas
 * Edward Said
 * Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
 * Barbara Herrnstein Smith
 * Paul Virilio
 * Slavoj Zizek

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