Theoretical models have also been developed to study the physics of phase transitions, such as the Landau-Ginzburg theory, Critical exponents and the use of mathematical techniques of quantum field theory and the renormalization group.

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Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal of critical and democratic theory and successor of Praxis International.

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* Critical race theory, a school of social thought that applies critical theory to issues of race, law, and power

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Critical theory – examination and critique of society and culture, drawing from knowledge across the social sciences and humanities.

* Critical Legal Thinking A Critical Legal Studies website which uses critical theory in an analysis of law and politics.

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Critical theory

Critical theory is a school of thought that stresses the examination and the critique of society and culture, by applying knowledge from the social sciences and the humanities.

Critical social theory is, in contrast, a form of self-reflective knowledge involving both understanding and theoretical explanation to reduce entrapment in systems of domination or dependence, obeying the emancipatory interest in expanding the scope of autonomy and reducing the scope of domination.

Critical theory in literature and the humanities in general does not necessarily involve a normative dimension, whereas critical social theory does, either through criticizing society from some general theory of values, norms, or " oughts ," or through criticizing it in terms of its own espoused values.

Critical theory was first defined by Max Horkheimer of the Frankfurt School of sociology in his 1937 essay Traditional and Critical Theory: Critical theory is a social theory oriented toward critiquing and changing society as a whole, in contrast to traditional theory oriented only to understanding or explaining it.

Critical reaction to the film was mostly negative, with much being made of Taylor's wildly fluctuating weight from scene to scene.

Critical response was positive, but with a much lower rating than the first two films.

While the ride was originally founded with the idea of drawing attention to how unfriendly the city was to bicyclists, the leaderless structure of Critical Mass makes it impossible to assign it any one specific goal.

His magnum opus was the " Critical Edition of the New Testament.

Critical Mass was created in 1996 when The Right Stuf made a deal with Manga Entertainment to release an unedited edition of Violence Jack, which they deemed too intense for their normal line.

Scottish author Hugh Blair's 1763 A Critical Dissertation on the Poems of Ossian upheld the work's authenticity against Johnson's scathing criticism and from 1765 was included in every edition of Ossian to lend the work credibility.

The " Critical Path Method " ( CPM ) was developed as a joint venture between DuPont Corporation and Remington Rand Corporation for managing plant maintenance projects.

Critical reception was mostly positive ; critics including Roger Ebert considered it one of the best Star Trek films.

Critical reception for the film was highly positive, with much praise for the realistic battle scenes and the actors ' performances, but earning some criticism for ignoring the contributions of several other countries to the D-Day landings in general and at Omaha Beach specifically.

The phrase " test of significance " was coined by Ronald Fisher: " Critical tests of this kind may be called tests of significance, and when such tests are available we may discover whether a second sample is or is not significantly different from the first.

Paul C. was also a major contributor to Critical Beatdown, producing " Give The Drummer Some ," and engineering most of the album.

Critical reception was lukewarm elsewhere as well.

During the era of the Weimar Republic, Germany became a center of intellectual thought at its universities, and most notably social and political theory ( especially Marxism ) was combined with Freudian psychoanalysis to form the highly influential discipline of Critical Theory — with its development at the Institute for Social Research ( also known as the Frankfurt School ) founded at the University of Frankfurt am Main.

Critical reaction was positive, with the 82. 30 % average rating based on 32 reviews of the PC version.

This time, however, the critical reaction was exceedingly hostile Boris Godunov ( opera )# Critical reception | Critical Reception in this article for details.

This term was first used in regard to these works in Edward Dowden's Shakespeare: A Critical Study of His Mind and Art ( 1875 ).

Critical reaction was mixed ; the Winnipeg Free Press describing the record as a " monstrosity ".

This was hardly Rickover's first clash with the defense industry ; he was historically hard, even harsh, in exacting high standards from these contractors – but now his relationship with Electric Boat took on the characteristics of an all-out, no-holds-barred war ( Running Critical: The Silent War, Rickover & General Dynamics, 1986 ).

Critical voices came from established poets and writers represented by the Asociacion Sandinista de Trabajadores de la Cultura ( ASTC ) and from the Ventana both of which were headed by Rosario Murillo.

" Critical Reconstruction " policies sought to disassociate the city's identity from its Nazi and socialist legacy, though some remnants were preserved, with walkways and bicycle paths established along the border strip to preserve the memory of the Wall.

Critical praise for Scar and a wildly popular live show established Lush as one of the most written about groups of the early 1990s UK indie scene.

In 1977, together with Karl Klare, Mark Kelman, Roberto Unger, and other scholars, Kennedy established the Critical Legal Studies movement.

The first surgical ICU was established in Baltimore, and, in 1962, in the University of Pittsburgh, the first Critical Care Residency was established in the United States.

Critical historians treated this legend as an idle tale and denied the historicity of King Gundaphorus until modern archeology established him as an important figure in North India in the latter half of the 1st century.

Critical opinions against the Sultan waned after the Federation of Malaya was established the following January, which restored the rulers ' powers.

Criteria for SIRS were established in 1992 as part of the American College of Chest Physicians / Society of Critical Care Medicine Consensus Conference.

Critical of the Communist Party in the U. S. and its support for the Soviet Union and Joseph Stalin, they established the magazine to espouse democratic socialist values, critique contemporary politics and culture, and oppose both Soviet totalitarianism and McCarthyism in the U. S. Its contributing editors and writers offered a range of left, liberal, democratic socialist, and anti-communist views, and the magazine's writing was marked by both its long essays on the state of domestic and foreign politics but also the growing conformity of American culture.

It was established by The Scripps Research Institute to predict protein structure from protein sequence in the context of the 6th biannual CASP, or Critical Assessment of Techniques for Protein Structure Prediction.