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 theory was established as a school of thought by five Frankfurt School theoreticians: Herbert Marcuse, Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Walter Benjamin, and Jürgen Habermas.

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 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 ).

In 1837 he issued the " Prodrome " of a monograph on the recent and fossil Echinodermata, the first part of which appeared in 1838 ; in 1839 – 40 he published two quarto volumes on the fossil Echinoderms of Switzerland ; and in 1840 – 45 he issued his Etudes critiques sur les mollusques fossiles (" Critical Studies on Fossil Mollusks ").

The first three are unverified historically, which therefore casts doubt on their accuracy, yet they also form the groundwork on which Boece and George Buchanan afterwards based some of their historical writings, much of which was exposed by Thomas Innes as doubtful in his Critical Essay ( i, pp. 201 – 2, 4 ).

Thus was born the FARMS Critical Text Project which published the first volume of the 3-volume Book of Mormon Critical Text in 1984.

* January-Tobias Smollett becomes the first editor of the Critical Review.

In 1763 Blair published A Critical Dissertation on the Poems of Ossian, his first well known openly authored publication.

When Theodor W. Adorno, a founder of Critical Theory, published a study with his colleagues on The Authoritarian Personality in 1954, it had at first an enormous intellectual impact.

1980: Critical Mass-Ten years into the construction of the first prototype arcology, a developmental adjustment was made in order to gain momentum for the project.

Subsequently the language was progressively extended and refined, first by Program Validation Limited and then by Praxis Critical Systems Limited.

When first launched, it struggled under the overhead of the software and operating system, which consumed almost 60 MB on disk, a vast sum at the time, leading some wags to suggest that the pre-announce code name for the series, PACIFIC, was actually an acronym meaning " Performance Ain't Critical If Function Is Complete ".

Davis also co-founded the prison abolition group, Critical Resistance, which held its first conference in 1998.

The Critical Update Notification tool continued to be promoted by Microsoft through 1999 and the first half of 2000.

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.

After losing his chair, Bayle engaged in the preparation of his massive Dictionnaire Historique et Critique ( Historical and Critical Dictionary ), which actually constituted one of the first encyclopaedias ( before the term had come into wide circulation ) of ideas and their originators.

On July 1, 2006 at Pride Critical Countdown Absolute, Filipović defeated 1992 Olympic judo gold medalist Hidehiko Yoshida by technical knockout ( leg kicks ) in the first round to move on to the semi-finals.

Pillsbury's training program to the FDA in 1972, titled " Food Safety through the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point System ", was the first time that HACCP was used.

Part of the reason for the confusion over the term Critical Regionalism is that Frampton's famous essay " Towards a Critical Regionalism: Six points for an architecture of resistance " was first published in the book " The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture " ( 1983 ) edited by Hal Foster.