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Social Theory

Thinkers and essays gathered around this school of thought.

5Thinkers
2Thoughts
19Major Works
8Archive Entries
Contemporary · ModernTime Period
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Hannah Arendt

Explores power, action, responsibility, totalitarianism, judgment, plurality, and public life.

“The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds.”
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1925–1961

Frantz Fanon

Examines colonialism, identity, violence, liberation, psychology, race, and the wounds of domination.

Political Philosophy · Postcolonial Thought · Psychology
1868–1963

W.E.B. Du Bois

Analyzes race, double consciousness, democracy, education, history, culture, and the struggle for equal dignity.

African American Thought · Ethics · Political Philosophy
1906–1975

Hannah Arendt

Explores power, action, responsibility, totalitarianism, judgment, plurality, and public life.

Ethics · Political Philosophy · Social Theory
1926–1984

Michel Foucault

Examines power, knowledge, discipline, institutions, identity, history, and the construction of normality.

Political Philosophy · Poststructuralism · Social Theory
1818–1883

Karl Marx

Analyzes labor, capital, class, ideology, alienation, power, and historical change through materialist social critique.

Economics · Political Philosophy · Social Theory
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