Terminology
Contemporary usage has tended to include all types of criticism directed at culture.
The term cultural criticism itself has been claimed by Jacques Barzun: No such thing was recognized or in favour when we began — more by intuition than design — in the autumn of 1934. In contrast, a work such as Richard Wolin's 1995 The Terms of Cultural Criticism: The Frankfurt School, Existentialism, Poststructuralism (1995) uses it as a broad-brush description.
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