Oxford Dictionary of Critical Theory (2nd Edn.)

This book is an update and expansion of Buchanan’s well received 2010 Dictionary of Critical Theory. It covers the theories, concepts and personalities who comprise critical theory as it is deployed today, and unsurprisingly is aimed at a broad interdisciplinary readership encompassing the humanities and social scientific disciplines.

The work opens with a new second edition preface, alongside the one authored in 2009 for the original volume. Comprising a single page of text each, it is notable that outside of these prefaces no supplementary material is presented with all bar a handful of pages given over to the dictionary’s...