Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Associated Concepts Facet
3. Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)
4. [concepts in the arts and humanities]
5. [historical, theoretical, and critical concepts]
6. critical theories (dialectical critiques)

Anotations

Scope note:

Critical theory similar to structuralism in its critique of historicism, meaning, and post-Renaissance rational philosophy, but differing by its rejection of structural linguistics as a theoretical base, emphasizing fragmentation instead, with a belief that there can be no historical progress nor any cumulative progress in knowledge.