The program of thought associated with The Frankfurt School.
“Thanks to contemporary scholars such as Martin Jay, Andrew Feenberd, and Susan Buck-Morss, we know that the intellectual origins of critical theory line in Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis, in George [sic] Lukacs’s adaptation of the concept of reification from Karl Marx, and in Walter Benjamin’s theorizations of language” (Handelman 2019, 9)Handelman, Matthew. 2019. The Mathematical Imagination: On the Origins and Promise of Critical Theory. Fordham Univ Press.