critical theory
noun
mass noun
- a philosophical approach to culture, and especially to literature, that seeks to confront the social, historical, and ideological forces and structures which produce and constrain it. The term is applied particularly to the work of the Frankfurt School.批判理论（一种从哲学角度看待文化, 特别是文学的方法, 试图面对产生和限制它的社会、历史和意识形态力量及结构; 这一术语尤其用于法兰克福学派的作品）。