Communication, Criticism, and the Postmodern Consensus
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- 1 August 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Political Theory
- Vol. 25 (4) , 559-583
Abstract
A critique is not a matter of saying that things are not right as they are. It is a matter of pointing out on what kinds of assumptions, what kinds of familiar, unchallenged, unconsidered modes of thought, the practices that we accept rest.... Criticism is a matter of flushing out that thought and trying to change it: to show that things are not as self-evident as one believed, to see that what is accepted as self-evident will no longer be accepted as such. Practicing criticism is a matter of making facile gestures difficult. Michel Foucault (1988b, 154)Keywords
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