Introducing critical theory

This book was fun to read. I liked how easily the author managed to reduce whole bodies of work into a sentence or two, which is precisely what I am looking for in these books.

Reading this book is not going to make you an expert on Foucault or Lacan- however, if what you are seeking is an idea as to the spectrum of schools and branches and concerns of "critical theory," or if you're not even terribly sure what "critical theory" IS, then I suggest you pick this book up. When I was just getting started, it really helped me create a "cognitive map" of the field.

Too often an out of the blue comment was made without a reference to from either a previous introducing topic or a new topic that one could use as a base to understand the "out of the blue" new comment. Critical theory may have had its start with Socialism, but it didn't seem to have made any progress, other than critiques of Socialism.